Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Straw
Robert Kern wrote: > Andrew Straw wrote: > >> 1) revert to the old way. The primary issues with this are a) >> "package_data" is supported as standard Python from 2.4 on, and the old >> way required carrying our own distutils command and b) we switched the >> data directory to have a nested stru

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-24 Thread Fernando Perez
On 2/24/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > > IPython does something similar and possibly better. > > > > > > http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/trunk/setupext/install_data_ext.py > > > From a quick look at the code, it's hard to determine whether this

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-24 Thread Ken McIvor
On Feb 23, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Andrew Straw wrote: > > 2) make our own distutils monkeypatch a la setuptools. Looking at > setuptools/dist.py, this doesn't look trivial -- certainly beyond my > free bandwidth capacity. I've written a script that attempts to simplify writing setup.py's that include