On Saturday 03 March 2007 12:43:53 pm you wrote:
> 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""")
Excellent, I was going to add a warning like this myself if the setuptools
approach was accepted.
> 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....
Yes, I am set up to build the html docs (in fact, I have been working a bit on
the users guide this morning.) I'll update the webpage this afternoon.
Darren
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