Hi, I feel your pain on the issue of eggs...
> - Is there some way to name the eggs to disambiguate between 32-bit > Python 2.7 (which works on all versions of Mac OS X) and 64-bit Python > 2.7 (which only works on 10.6) that is compatible with easy_install? > In the past if the eggs had strange names easy_install misbehaved. When I built the readline package on the Mac, I ran into similar issues. To keep things simple (or so I thought), I built one universal egg. On Leopard with Apple Python 2.5 (see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/readline/2.5.1) and the setuptools at the time (May 2008), the egg was named *-fat.egg. Since there is no architecture called "fat", easy_install refused to select it for installation. So I renamed it to the explicit architectures (*-i386.egg, *-ppc.egg, *-ppc64.egg, *-x86_64.egg), but this was another saga, since PyPI refused to upload identical files with different names. I then tweaked each egg slightly to bypass this... Very silly, as you can see. The latest version of the readline package (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/readline) has an egg for Leopard and Snow Leopard built against the default Apple Python on each system. On Snow Leopard and Python 2.6, the egg is now called *-universal.egg and seems to work with the latest easy_install. To avoid repeating the silly tweaking of eggs, I renamed the Leopard *-fat.egg to *-i386.egg only, as that is pretty much the dominant architecture which will keep most easy_install users happy (70% of the downloads of the 2.5.1 Leopard version with four eggs picked the i386 egg). To get back to your question, I would venture something like matplotlib-1.0.1-py2.7-macosx-10.3-i386.egg and matplotlib-1.0.1-py2.7-macosx-10.6-x86_64.egg (ditto for the ppc architectures). Regards, Ludwig P.S. > So my recommendation is not to Python 2.5 on a Mac. I have been running matplotlib on Apple Python 2.5 on Leopard mostly with the TkAgg backend (on Apple Tk) for a few years now - maybe it's time to upgrade ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
