Re: [Matplotlib-users] Eggs and toolkits

[Charlie M. <cw...@gm...>]

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
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log =
files
> > for problems?  Stop!  Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
> > searching your log files as easy as surfing the  web.  DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
> > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D103432&bid=3D230486&dat=
=3D121642
> > _______________________________________________
> > Matplotlib-users mailing list
> > Mat...@li...
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
> >
>