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

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_setup

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, and

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 the

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. So

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's deprecated

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