Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-06 Thread Edin Salkovic
On 4/5/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, you're requiring setuptools now? I didn't notice that. Cool. > > I'd point them here for up-to-date instructions and downloads: > > http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptools Thanks Robert for the insight! I updated the installation inst

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Straw
Robert Kern wrote: > Oh, you're requiring setuptools now? I didn't notice that. Cool. > Just for Python 2.3 so that we could sanitize the setup.py a little. (Namely for the backport of the package_data field to setup().) It's not required for Python >= 2.4 since package_data is already in stock

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Kern
John Hunter wrote: > On 4/5/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The purpose of ez_setup.py was to give people a migration path such that they >> could write project that used setuptools, but ensure that their users >> wouldn't >> have to go install another package themselves. >> >> It

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread John Hunter
On 4/5/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The purpose of ez_setup.py was to give people a migration path such that they > could write project that used setuptools, but ensure that their users wouldn't > have to go install another package themselves. > > It's deprecated now. Don't use it.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Straw
Robert Kern wrote: > John Hunter wrote: > >> On 4/5/07, Edin Salkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> This would make installing setuptools even easier, since the newest >>> ez_setup/seuptools would be downloaded by the user/developer every >>> time a "svn update;python setup.py instal

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Kern
John Hunter wrote: > On 4/5/07, Edin Salkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This would make installing setuptools even easier, since the newest >> ez_setup/seuptools would be downloaded by the user/developer every >> time a "svn update;python setup.py install" is issued. >> >> Are the above chan

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread John Hunter
On 4/5/07, Edin Salkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would make installing setuptools even easier, since the newest > ez_setup/seuptools would be downloaded by the user/developer every > time a "svn update;python setup.py install" is issued. > > Are the above changes OK? I'm not sure I see

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:44:36 am Edin Salkovic wrote: > On 4/5/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I considered this when setuptools became a requirement for python-2.3 > > installs, but decided against it. My reasoning was that the unfamiliar > > user would go to install matplotlib

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 05 April 2007 4:29:00 am Edin Salkovic wrote: > On 3/3/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I figured I would be a good crash test dummy to see how easy > > it was to install setuptools, so I poked around and found the ez

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Edin Salkovic
On 4/5/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I considered this when setuptools became a requirement for python-2.3 > installs, but decided against it. My reasoning was that the unfamiliar user > would go to install matplotlib, and see setup.py and ez_setup and get > confused. Maybe it should

[matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Edin Salkovic
On 3/3/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I figured I would be a good crash test dummy to see how easy > it was to install setuptools, so I poked around and found the ez_setup > and am off to the races. I added a friendly exception to