On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charlie Moad wrote: > >> best way to move forward is to just post binaries for each >> architecture and not have a universal build. >> Please, Please, Please, NO! >> This seems to be the only solution to make "easy_install matplotlib" >> actually work. >> > > Well, I guess that question then is: how important is it for "easy_install > matplotlib" to work. Is it so bad to have to download something? Anyway, I > suppose there could be non-universal eggs for that, if there is still a > universal egg that can be downloaded. > > I thought this was a rumor? A rumor that my G4 powerbook really hates. >> > > Well rumor or no, they could change their mind any day anyway. I'm pretty > happy with my Dual G5 desktop too, but I'm not even running 10.5 yet, > anyway. > > No. Communicating with the setuptools people makes more sense to me, but >> I am not currently on the distutils list. >> > > nor am I, but maybe I'll post a message and see what we get. Just to be > clear: > > Python version: 2.5 Universal from python.org > > $ python setupegg.py bdist_egg > > creates an egg called: > > matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.5-macosx-10.3-fat.egg > > which will install with: > > $ easy_install name_of_egg.egg > > if the name is changed to: > > matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.5.egg > > on both OS-X 10.5 and 10.4 (and 10.3.9?) > > However, if the full name is used (with -fat, etc), then easy_install tried > to go download it from the net instead. > > Also: > easy_install matplotlib > > will not find the binary on PyPI, but rather try to download and build the > source. > > Have I got that right? > > Have you tried putting the binary up on pyPI with some of these different > names to see if it will find them? > I tried a variation on the SF download page and it doesn't help. Here is the doc I found. http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#platform-utilities pkg_resources.get_build_platform() returns *macosx-10.3-i386 *on my iMac, but *macosx-10.3-ppc *on my g4. This is what the file extensions are depending on the machine I build on. *NOTE* the "-fat" extension is not outputted from setuptools. I just renamed it to that so people would know it is a fat binary. I'm not a fan of renaming it to "matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.5.egg" since it implies a platform-independent binary. - Charlie
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