Re: [matplotlib-devel] internal enthought.traits package: a progress report

[Gael V. <gae...@no...>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:34:18AM -1000, Eric Firing wrote:
> 1) If an internal version of traits is to be used, how hard would it be 
> to patch it in such a way that it *could* be used externally?

I think pretty hard, but you would have to ask enthought's dev.

> 2) Does Gael's version already get around the slow initialization 
> problem?  (I presume so--it was pkg-resources that was causing the 
> trouble, wasn't it?)  

As far as I can tell, yes. Setuptools is no longer a run time dependency,
just a compile time dependency. It is imported nowwhere in the code base.

> I think this is important.

I think it is _very_ important.

Gaël