On 10/3/2012 9:20 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I invite comments for a new MEP about improving the situation with > respect to our bundling of third-party Python dependencies. > > In particular, I'd love feedback from the various stakeholders -- those > producing binary installers and packages for the various platforms. > > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/MEP11 > > Mike
Hi, could dateutil, pytz, and pyparsing be made optional dependencies? I just tried, all of my own scripts do work without them being installed (one line needed to be removed in axes.py https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/axes.py#L19). Only about 10 of matplotlib's examples fail (after some additional changes). Frankly, I would remove/unbundle all 3rd party Python packages from matplotlib and declare them as dependencies for pip and easy_install, and of course in the documentation. I think that matplotlib, the library, should not attempt to work around Python's distribution/packaging limitations. Please do not use post-install or run-time scripts to detect and install missing dependencies. Concerning end user experience, the scipy-stack project seems like a better place to address this. Optionally, for Windows users that won't touch pip or easy_install (like me), matplotlib could provide separate downloads of installers for dateutil, pytz, pyparsing, and six. They are trivial to create. It is also easy to create EGGs or MSIs for matplotlib, which are occasionally requested. Also consider a separate package for the matplotlib tests, which would include 35 MB of baseline images that are of little use to end users. Christoph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
