Re: [matplotlib-devel] os x egg fubar?

[Chris.Barker <Chr...@no...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> I think the src egg approach for os x is hopeless because too many
> people are having problems with architecture on png and zlib
> dependencies, and we don't have a lot of control over this because
> they are getting these dependencies from a variety of providers.

Maybe it's hopeless, but one solution is to try to standardize, in the 
MacPython community, on using William Kyngesburye's UnixImageIO and 
Freetype  Frameworks for the dependencies:

http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/doku.php?id=software:frameworks

They are Universal, Binary, and packaged as nice frameworks and also 
with traditional unix-style layouts for building against.

>  I
> think we need a binary installer, eg using bdist_mpkg, with the
> freetype, png and zlib dependencies built in, as we have on windows.

That's good route too, though it always feels a bit silly to have a 
different copy of libpng inside MPL, and PIL,and wxPython, and ....

Why the heck Apple doesn't provide these really common libs is still 
beyond me!

-Chris


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