Re: [matplotlib-devel] 0.99.1 and the setup.cfg file

[Lev G. <le...@co...>]

Received from John Hunter on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:57:37PM EDT:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:38 PM,  <jas...@cr...> wrote:
> > I just downloaded 0.99.1 and ran into some problems using it in Sage.
> > Basically, in the tar.gz file, there was a setup.cfg file, which had the
> > following:
> 
> This was a bug in the tarball -- mpl doesn't keep a copy of setup.cfg
> in svn and shouldn't ship with it.  We do ship setup.cfg.template
> which you can use to create and customize a setup.cfg, but there
> shouldn't be one by default.
> 
> It's not listed in MANIFEST.in, but apparently when I built the
> tarball I had not done an svn-clean.  setup.cfg *was* in my MANIFEST
> (which is autogenerated at build time) on my build machine, but I am
> not sure why it was added since it isn't in MANIFEST.in.
> 
> In any case, I just rebuilt and reuploaded the tarball with no
> setup.cfg from a clean dir
> 
>   https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99.1/
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> JDH

The latest tarball (downloaded as of a few minutes ago) still seems to
contain a setup.cfg file:

$ tar zft matplotlib-0.99.1.tar.gz |grep setup.cfg
matplotlib-0.99.1/setup.cfg
matplotlib-0.99.1/setup.cfg.template

								L.G.