On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Freddie Witherden wrote:
> After thinking about the problem a little bit I have gone for the following
> solution. I added support for mathtex to use the wrappers provided by
> matplotlib for FT2Font and _png. It is likely we will want to keep them in
> sync anyway
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> Furthermore, you could put numpy in there, too. Maybe even recipes for
> downloading and building the C dependencies for those who need it. Basically,
> by
> freeing yourself from the shackles of distutils, you can make the
> "new-to-Python-ju
On 2009-07-29 15:29, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2009-07-29 08:17, John Hunter wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>>> I think we need (at least as a transitional stopgap) a single "python
>>> setup.py install" to install both matplotlib and mathtex. Once
>>> distrib
> I second this. I would like to see the new mathtext (and png and
> freetype wrappers as necessary, possibly in mathtext) live in the
> matplotlib trunk under lib, the same place we put pytz and dateutil.
> It can have its own setup and release cycle, but I think it would make
> matters simpler t
On 2009-07-29 08:17, John Hunter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>> I think we need (at least as a transitional stopgap) a single "python
>> setup.py install" to install both matplotlib and mathtex. Once
>> distributions catch up (which could take more than a y
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> I think we need (at least as a transitional stopgap) a single "python
> setup.py install" to install both matplotlib and mathtex. Once
> distributions catch up (which could take more than a year, depending on
> cycles), we can consider b
I think we need (at least as a transitional stopgap) a single "python
setup.py install" to install both matplotlib and mathtex. Once
distributions catch up (which could take more than a year, depending on
cycles), we can consider being more loosely coupled.
There are already examples of instal
