On 25/04/2008, at 2:03 PM, John Hunter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Christopher Barker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I posted a note about this yesterday, with no replies, so I'll try >> again: >> >> Instead of all of us going through the pain of figuring out how to >> build >> and link static libs for MPL, and PIL, and GDAL, and ???, why don't >> we >> just build against the nice Frameworks here: >> >> http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/software:frameworks >> >> yes, it's an extra download and install, but it's easy, they can be >> provided by package distributors, and they can be shared by a bunch >> of >> python packages (and other *nix-y software). See my message yesterday >> for more detail. > > Hey Chris, > > I read your post and perhaps I am missing the obvious, but my basic > question is: apple provides libpng and freetype with xcode which ships > with their computers (an optional install from their cd) and these > work fine with MPL, so why should we require an external dependency?
Really?? So I'm an idiot -- I dont deny it. At any rate, I think I have things working with a static build of both these libraries. Thanks, cf -- Christopher Fonnesbeck Dunedin, New Zealand Skype: chrisfonnesbeck ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
