Hi! I'm being dense here and I'm hoping some one can help me out.
I had 0.91.1 from http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/index.html I went to install the shiny new version of matplotlib (0.98.3) on my mac using the .egg from sourceforge. I assumed that the .egg is a binary version of matplotlib, but the installer started to download a source tarball from sourceforge. It then failed because I don't have a bunch of libraries like png etc. I then tried with the --no-deps option on easy_install and it timed out. Well, I wanted to see how badly my install was borked and I ran ipython, imported matplotlib and checked the version and the date. In [3]: matplotlib.__version__ Out[3]: '0.98.3' In [4]: matplotlib.__date__ Out[4]: '$Date: 2008-07-31 15:08:08 -0400 (Thu, 31 Jul 2008) $' eh? It installed? Then I ran some of my scripts and it turns out those work fine too! I've been trying to understand: 1. Why the .egg would need to compile from source 2. Why the .egg works properly even though dependencies were missing and the compile failed Yours in astonishment -kg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
