Re: [Gnuplot-py-users] suggestion

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2010/4/26 Flavio Coelho <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.
>

This seems easy, but is it the correct way forward? I did not follow all the
dirt being thrown around with respect to building/installing python pacages.
I know there is a lot of controversies.
However, distutils remains supported in python core
http://docs.python.org/distutils/index.html#distutils-index

so it is a part of python 3. People still seem to use it and advocate it (eg
http://diveintopython3.org/packaging.html ).

So, why not use the core packages? If we go with setuptools, we could also
take pip or distribute...

Benny


>  cheers,
>
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> Flávio Codeço Coelho
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/liveplots/
> [2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
>
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