Hi, > Anyway, since the mathtex setup infrastructure is based on what > matplotlib was already doing, there's a common convention we can > exploit. Essentially, the matplotlib setup.py builds up a list of > extension modules (ext_modules) and packages and then passes those > lists to distutils for building. So, in theory, all mathtex needs > to do is provide a function that will add extension modules and > packages to those lists (basically like all of the build_* methods > in setupext.py). So basically, matplotlib's setup.py would import > lib/mathtex/setupext.py (by filename) and call a method in it. Lots > of details I'm missing, but that should provide a general framework.
Not sure about the extension modules + lists stuff, although setuptools is not my area of expertise. Sadly executing the lib/ mathtex/setup.py file isn't really an option either, so I'll need to think on it. Might need to ask for some help though. > > Another issue this raises is whether to build the FT2Font and png > modules twice, once as part of matplotlib, and once as part of > mathtex. Once mathtex is a truly external dependency for > matplotlib, I don't see a way around this, so maybe we should just > pretend we're already there, despite the duplication. If we want to > be clever, I could see mathtex being smart about imports: try > importing its local copies of its libraries and failing that import > matplotlib's. I'm not entirely sure about that idea, but I sort of > feel "hacky-if-you-do, hacky-if-you-don't" here ;) I don't think it hurts having two FT2Font wrappers lying around on a system. > Please try to use svn:externals if you can -- that will make pulling > updates from mathtex easier. I've never used it cross-repository > like this, so there may be unforeseen issues. svn:externals seems to work quite well and is currently used in the mathtex branch to pull mathtex. > It also just occurred to me that we might want to take another step > in preparation for mathtex as an external dependency: make it > optional. That is, if importing mathtex fails, be able to render > regular text, and warn if trying to render math text. Shouldn't be too hard to add, I'll write in backend support today. Regards, Freddie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
