On 3/3/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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""")
Apparently, there's a better solution for the above code (source
http://peak.telecommunity.com/doc/ez_setup/index.html):
===
This directory (svn://svn.eby-sarna.com/svnroot/ez_setup) exists so
that Subversion-based projects can share a single
copy of the ``ez_setup`` bootstrap module for ``setuptools``, and have it
automatically updated in their projects when ``setuptools`` is updated.
For your convenience, you may use the following svn:externals definition::
ez_setup svn://svn.eby-sarna.com/svnroot/ez_setup
You can set this by executing this command in your project directory::
svn propedit svn:externals .
And then adding the line shown above to the file that comes up for editing.
Then, whenever you update your project, ``ez_setup`` will be updated as well.
===
We should then add the following lines to our setup.py script
from ez_setup import use_setuptools
use_setuptools()
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
This would make installing setuptools even easier, since the newest
ez_setup/seuptools would be downloaded by the user/developer every
time a "svn update;python setup.py install" is issued.
Are the above changes OK?
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