Jeff Whitaker wrote: > Ryan May wrote: >> On a related note, is there any reason that Basemap/pyshapelib >> couldn't use a system copy of shapelib? Right now, Gentoo's patching >> the setup.py to do this. I was curious if we could move that upstream. > I know it's silly at some level to have multiple copies, but if basemap > installs it's own (which doesn't conflict with the system copy) at least > I'm sure it's going to work. For me, it means I have to spend less time > helping folks figure out why they can't open shapefiles. It's a quite a > bit harder to check if a C library works from within python code than it > is a python package. > > Bottom line - it could be done, but I don't think it's worth it. > Shapelib is tiny anyway.
Fine by me. I just thought I'd see what could be done. It sounds like it'd be a maintainance pain for you. So long as you don't go messing with setup.py's handling of shapelib too often, Gentoo should be fine as it already has a patch. :) Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
