On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:53 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The 0.98.5 windows installer is still overwriting existing installations
> of
> > configobj. This package is not needed by matplotlib and should not be
> > installed on windows, nor should traits.
> >
> > I have removed configobj and enthought.traits from the trunk, but it is
> > still present on the maintenance branches. On build systems, setup.cfg
> for
> > the maintenance branches should be configured to not install configobj or
> > traits under any circumstances. Once it has been so configured, the build
> > directory needs to be deleted, because it probably contains a cached copy
> of
> > configobj that will get incorporated into the installer the next time it
> is
> > built, regardless of the settings in setup.cfg.
> >
> > This bug has been assigned to me, but it is out of my hands at this
> point.
>
> Since config obj is removed, it is mostly moot going forward, but it
> appears that something still went wrong with the win32 build process.
> Charlie, are you maintaining a setup.cfg file you use for the win32
> builds that has configobj and traits off? You also need to make sure
> that you delete the build dir after any changes to setup.cfg before
> rebuilding since cruft in the builddir can get carried along. I will
> add this to the devel release notes,
>
I think it should not be an issue for new releases from the trunk, as long
as the build directory has been deleted so there is no chance of a cached
configobj finding its way into the installer.
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