In article <rowen-e92aed.12542907082...@news.gmane.org>, "Russell E. Owen" <ro...@uw.edu> wrote:
> In article <51fbb996.5030...@stsci.edu>, > Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> > wrote: > > > Ludwig, this is one of the most entertaining e-mails I've read in a > > while, and I think your arguments make a lot of sense. > > > > Given infinite developer resources, do you think there's any logic to > > providing *both* system Python and python.org based binaries? How much > > additional work would that be? > > > > I think the big problems to solve now is > > > > (a) get to the bottom of why the new installer is breaking existing > > installations of dateutil and pytz. Russell: even though they are not > > currently working, could you provide what you have so that others can > > have a look? > > I put the installer here (and announced it earlier -- I thought in this > thread): > <http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/python/> > > I do not consider it safe because: > - It may trash existing installations of dateutil and pytz (especially > those installed by the matplotlib 1.2.1 binary installer) > - It does not include pytz, dateutil and six (unlike the 1.2.1 binary > installer), so it's a real pain to use > - It is missing its unit tests and so is poorly tested > - It also appears that pylab is broken (something I only recently > discovered) I was able to fix the last two problems and I uploaded a new binary installer to the location mentioned above. It still will delete python-dateutil under some circumstances (not fully tested, but the last one would not trash it if it was installed by pip, but would trash it if installed by the matplotlib 1.2.1 binary installer). I could imagine making it the official installer anyway, for lack of anything better. But it's certainly not ideal. It is surely not that hard to make an installer that can also install other packages. But it's not something I have time to investigate right now. BTW: pip refuses to install pytz for me, claiming a suitable version was not found, and listing dozens of versions. Anyone else seen this? I don't recall seeing it before recently. I ended up downloading the source and using distutils. -- Russell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
