> I second this. I would like to see the new mathtext (and png and > freetype wrappers as necessary, possibly in mathtext) live in the > matplotlib trunk under lib, the same place we put pytz and dateutil. > It can have its own setup and release cycle, but I think it would make > matters simpler to have it there. If there is compelling reason to > have it live in a separate svn repo, we can always grab it externally, > as scipy does for our sphinx extensions. > > We can use the mpl configure setup.cfg to either > no-install/force-install/auto-install as we do for these other > packages. This works fine at build time, but is a little more > complicated when distributing binaries. Eg for win32 binaries, we > currently force these packages on, which is sometimes a problem. We > might be able to be a little smarter about building win32 installers, > so the user can select which subpackages to install, but I am not > holding my breath on this one.
After thinking about the problem a little bit I have gone for the following solution. I added support for mathtex to use the wrappers provided by matplotlib for FT2Font and _png. It is likely we will want to keep them in sync anyway -- so that should not be an issue. However, I am having trouble working around the fact that mathtex is two levels deep (lib/mathtex/mathtex). I can either get the setup.py file to install either just the setup* stuff from mathtex or install mathtex as mathtex/mathtex. Not sure how to work around this. I have committed what I have thus far to the branch. Regards, Freddie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
