On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: > On 10/03/2012 05:26 PM, Erik Bray wrote: >> On 10/03/2012 12:20 PM, 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 >> >> +1 Let me know if you need/want any help with any distribute or pip >> intricacies. >> >> As for Windows, I need to double check, but I believe bdist_wininst >> installers generated by setuptools/distribute do support installing >> dependencies from PyPI. >> >> Regarding Numpy: I'm not sure, does Matplotlib require Numpy at build >> time? I'm guessing probably yes, but if not it can also be installed >> by easy_install or pip. IIRC easy_install will install one of the >> pre-built binary eggs. pip only installs/builds from source which can >> be problematic sometimes. Though I fixed Numpy a while back to be >> installable by pip so it *does* work so long as Numpy can be built on >> your system. > > Numpy is required at build time (matplotlib C++ extensions need to > include Numpy's headers), but I had assumed if it was a requirement, it > would get installed first and then we'd be ok to proceed. Is that not > how pip works? > > Mike
Yes/no. Pip does install dependencies first, but they aren't available at run-time of the setup.py of the dependent package--unfortunate but mostly true. I've been meaning to see if I can fix that. And easy_install of course is flawed in that it installs dependencies afterwards. easy_install does support setup_requires for downloading and adding packages to the path when running setup.py, but this does *not* work with Numpy. So as you wrote in the MEP, Numpy will simply have to be installed separately, I think, if the C++ modules require the Numpy headers. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
