[Gnuplot-py-users] suggestion

[Flavio C. <fcc...@gm...>]

Hi,

I use Gnuplot.py in some of my projects, and would like to thank Michael for
such a useful package.

One of my projects, Liveplots[1], depends on Gnuplot.py, and uses setuptools
(easy_install)[2] as its main mode of distribution. It would be very
convenient for me, and possibly for other Gnuplot.py users, that is could
also be installed by means of the easy_install command. This is important
because other projects which want to declare Gnuplot.py as a dependency can
do so by listing it in their setup.py and have it be installed
automatically.

To enable this, all that is required is to edit one line in the setup.py:

where it reads "from distutils.core import setup"  it should read: "from
setuptools import setup". After this, running "python setup.py sdist.
register upload", will add Gnuplot.py to Python Package Index and make it
easy_installable for users with setuptools installed.

I should also point out, that this edit will not affect in any way how
Gnuplot.py is currently used and installed, just add a new way to install
it.

 cheers,

-- 
Flávio Codeço Coelho

[1] http://code.google.com/p/liveplots/
[2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools