On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Charlie Moad <cwm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First of all let me apologize for the problems we have been
> seeing with the binaries as of late. Frankly the root of the problem
> might be my detachment from the matplotlib source for some time.
> Unfortunately due to my time constraints, this won't be changing soon.
> I used to think being somewhat on the outside helped me keep the ease
> of the build process in check. This gap has apparently grown too
> wide.
I appreciate that this is a difficult task and that you have plenty of other
responsibilities, and appreciate your effort. However, I've been trying to
get to the bottom of why the windows installer is overwriting configobj and
I could use some feedback from you. I really need to know whether you delete
the build/ directory before creating a new installer.
>
> Moving ahead, python 2.6 and 3.0 are going to pose new challenges
> since they require new versions of visual studio I do not have access
> to.
I think 2.6 and 3.0 were both compiled with Visual C++ 2008, and so the free
Visual C++ 2008 express can be used to create extension modules. I the past
I have built and distributed extension modules built with mingw32 on windows
XP, but I have not been able to put together a working mingw32/msys on a
64-bit windows vista machine. This is my only windows computer, so it looks
like I will only be supporting py2.6 in the near future.
> Doing builds for 4 windows versions poses a great time to work on
> a standard cygwin build setup (not that the cygwin build process
> doesn't work as is). In addition to that we are going to possibly be
> seeing osx fat binaries with 4 architectures! I am more than happy to
> continue to contribute my time to create these builds, but I think it
> only makes sense to have a release candidate cycle before formally
> pushing to sourceforge.
>
What are the four architectures? I'd be willing to get things together on my
windows install so I can build mpl from source and help test with
python-2.6. (I know I'm going to regret this.)
Darren
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