Charlie Moad wrote: > Technically you are not supposed to unzip the package by hand.
how are you supposed to install it? can I do: easy_install TheNameOfTheZipfile.zip ?? or am I just supposed to do: easy_install matplotlib and have setuptools download it for me. > At most > we could put some info on the website, but you can't really add a readme > inside of the egg. You can't put a readme in the zip file? This does remind me a discussion we had on the python-mac list a good while back -- it would be nice if MacPython came with a utility that would let you click on and egg and have it do something intelligent (what was a subject of much debate!) > - The zipped egg includes dateutil and pytz. But I already have those > installed (both due to using older matplotlib and because I use dateutil > in my own code), so now I have two sets in different locations. This is > worrisome. hopefully the one that came with mpl is not directly on your sys.path, so it won't get imported accidentally, but I haven't looked lately. > This has been discussed a little on the lists. To sum up, setuptools > doesn't like universal binaries. For some reason it installs the egg > fine, but then tries to install from source. I've found is works OK if you re-name the egg to something like: matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5.egg instead of: matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg don't ask me why -- setuptools is a mystery to me. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
