This problem was more complicated than originally thought, but it is
working in cvs now. I updated basemap and matplotlib to express the
shared namespace matplotlib.toolkits. Now you should be able to use
matplotlib and basemap as separate eggs and all should work as
expected.
On 1/18/06, Charlie Moad <cw...@gm...> wrote:
> We haven't put support in yet, but it is very easy to do. I will add
> this to cvs very soon. For now:
>
> Edit basemap's setup.py and replace "from distutils.core import setup"
> with "from setuptools import setup".
>
> In BOTH mpl's and basemap's setup.py file add this option to the setup
> method, "namespace_packages =3D 'matplotlib.toolkits'".
>
> Both mpl and basemap should be installed as eggs. The namespace is
> how setuptools know separate packages share... a namespace.
>
> Let us know if you run into problems.
>
> - Charlie
>
> On 1/18/06, Tom Loredo <lo...@as...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I recently installed setuptools, and now whenever I build mpl
> > (I'm using 0.86), it gets installed in site-packages as an egg.
> > Fine, as far as use within python is concerned it works just
> > as before. But I just tried to install basemap, and the
> > installer puts it in site-packages in a new matplotlib directory
> > (i.e., not in the matplotlib...egg directory). If I try
> > to use it, I get an import error because it's not found
> > in the egg (which must the first place Python finds mpl).
> >
> > How can I properly install an mpl toolkit in the egg scenario;
> > or if there is no easy way, how can I "turn off" eggs so when
> > I build mpl it makes a normal install. Just deleting the
> > build directory (and the egg from site-packages) and rebuilding
> > from scratch didn't do it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
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