On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Russell E. Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The versions of pytz and dateutil that are included with matplotlib > 0.98.3 are outdated. > > dateutil 1.2 is included, but 1.4.1 is available > pytz: 2008c (from pypi) > > I am against including them at all (especially if they are installed > even if the user already has the packages available). They are both > trivial to install from source. > > In the case of pytz one can also use easy_install (and presumably this > can happen automatically via dependency handling). Unfortunately that is > not a good idea for dateutil; I just tried it and got version 1.1. Yow.
Hey Russell, thanks for the head's up. For our source installs, by default we install them only if they are not on the system, but you can configure this with setup.cfg to always, never or conditionally install them. I have updated the mpl versions to the ones you point to above. svn users -- if you want to upgrade to the latest using the mpl versions, cp setup.cfg.template to setup.cfg, uncomment the following lines, and set them to True ## Date/timezone support: pytz = True dateutil = True Conversely, if you never want to use the mpl versions, uncomment them and set them to False. Unfortunately, our binary installers are not so smart. It would be nice to have better binary installers which override existing installations. Charlie, do you know anything about this? JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
