On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2) make our own distutils monkeypatch a la setuptools. Looking at
> setuptools/dist.py, this doesn't look trivial -- certainly beyond my
> free bandwidth capacity.
This is fine by me -- I actually was forced to think about this this
morning as I tried to upgrade my powerbook to the latest svn. I'm
still on python2.3, and when I tried to install I hit the setuptools
import. I figured I would be a good crash test dummy to see how easy
it was to install setuptools, so I poked around and found the ez_setup
and am off to the races. I added a friendly exception to setup.py to
make it easier for the next guy
if major==2 and minor1<=3:
# setuptools monkeypatches distutils.core.Distribution to support
# package_data
try: import setuptools
except ImportError:
raise SystemExit("""\
matplotlib requires setuptools for installation. Please download
http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py and run it (as su if
you are doing a system wide install) to install the proper version of
setuptools for your system""")
Darren, do you still have the html docs building on your system? If
so, perhaps you could update the installing page to mention the
requirement (an perhaps the user's guide). I updated the README in
the src distro. I still haven't got my build pipeline for the htdocs
and user's guide going on my laptop after my old build computer died,
a good indication that both are too complicated....
JDH
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