Him On 30 Jul 2009, at 02:27, John Hunter wrote: > Isn't this a bit backwards? The point of the GSOC project is to make > the mathtext project available as a smaller, lighter, more widely > accessible project. If it depends on mpl, what have we achieved > except complexity? Don't we want the ft2font and png to be provided > by mathtext, and let mpl depend on it to get the stuff there? > Admittedly, mathtex may not be the right name (mpltext?) but > conceptually it seems like we want the low level stuff in mathtex. Or > am I missing your point here?
I should have made myself clearer. Mathtex will attempt to firstly import its own versions of FT2Font and friends. Should this fail it will then attempt to import those in matplotlib. So yes, mathtex still has all of the required dependencies, nothing has changed there. This means that if you have matplotlib installed you can use/install mathtex without compiling a single C-code extension. It also means that when matplotlib wishes to install mathtex it only need bother with copying over .py files -- the same way it does for pytz. > You can punt on the setup/dependency issue for now. In the branch, > you can assume mathtex exists and is installed. We can worry about > how to handle the setup and distribution issues once we have the > package organization rationalized. A simple set of install > instructions for developers with very explicit commands to check out > the branch, install the deps, and test would help us test as you > progress. Okay, I'll revert to the previous way of doing so (cd'ing to the directory where mathtex is checked out and running setup.py there). 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
