Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Benjamin Root
I have managed once before to get setup tools to install a package of mine as a directory instead of an egg, but I was never quite sure how I did that (I accidentally tripped some sort of test by doing "foo.__file__" somewhere in my code, I think). In any case, isn't this the same reason why the s

Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Thomas Kluyver July 6, 2013 11:26 AM*distribute*, which was a fork of setuptools, was merged into setuptools. *distutils* is the component in the standard library, and is still there. I still prefer distutils where possible, precisely because setuptools' eggs are a mess. Thom

Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Damon McDougall
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > On 2013/07/06 5:32 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Eric Firing > > wrote: >> >> If I do a clean install of mpl master, and then of basemap, basemap >> lands in dist-pa

Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Damon McDougall
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On 6 July 2013 18:20, Damon McDougall wrote: > >> Long story. The short story is that distutils was merged into >> setuptools. So setuptools is now the recommended way to install python >> packages. > > > *distribute*, which was a fork of

Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 July 2013 18:20, Damon McDougall wrote: > Long story. The short story is that distutils was merged into setuptools. > So setuptools is now the recommended way to install python packages. *distribute*, which was a fork of setuptools, was merged into setuptools. *distutils* is the componen

Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Eric Firing
On 2013/07/06 5:32 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Eric Firing > wrote: > > If I do a clean install of mpl master, and then of basemap, basemap > lands in dist-packages/mpl_toolkits, as it always has. But now it is > not fo

Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Damon McDougall
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > Damon McDougall > July 6, 2013 9:32 AM > > > > If I do a clean install of mpl master, and then of basemap, basemap >> lands in dist-packages/mpl_toolkits, as it always has. But now it is >> not found--I can't import it. It seems that n

Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Damon McDougall July 6, 2013 9:32 AMIf I do a clean install of mpl master, and then of basemap, basemap lands in dist-packages/mpl_toolkits, as it always has.  But now it is not found--I can't import it.  It seems that now the *real* mpl_toolkits is cleverly hidden inside an egg

Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Damon McDougall
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > If I do a clean install of mpl master, and then of basemap, basemap > lands in dist-packages/mpl_toolkits, as it always has. But now it is > not found--I can't import it. It seems that now the *real* mpl_toolkits > is cleverly hidden inside a