John Hunter wrote: > On 2/12/07, Charlie Moad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You're changing positions on me now, John! ;) > > It's better that way -- that way I can be right both times :-) Or is > it wrong both times? hmmm... > >> I asked about moving everything into the module, but you didn't want >> to mix the fonts/images/etc, so I made the install merge the data into >> a folder. I would love to be able to run "setup develop" as well. > > OK, I see, so the problem was we had to flatten everything and mix all > these datatypes together? eggs can't handle the existing directory > structure in the mpl-data? It would clearly be better if it could, > because dumping all the data files together isn't terribly elegant, so > I think it would be useful for some egghead to verify this and see if > there isn't a way to have the best of all worlds. I haven't used eggs > so can't say anything intelligent, except that I'm happy to defer to > those who know more about it and let's get it setup that that work > properly with mpl-data for eggs and and regular old-fashioned mpl > installs. If this means that we do have to flatten the data directory > structure, so be it. That's why god gave us 'ls *.EXT ' Well, another option is to maintain a sub-directory structure when creating mpl-data in the source package. The downside is that this will introduce code changes all over the code -- for example, code that previously asked for "os.path.join( mpl.get_data_dir(), 'blah.glade' )" would have to be converted to "os.path.join( mpl.get_data_dir(), 'gui', 'blah.glade' )".
So, the low energy, low probability-of-breakage approach is indeed to pile everything into mpl-data and make judicious use of "ls *.ext". This is what we install in site-packages anyway, so it can't be that bad, right? :) -Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
