Re: [matplotlib-devel] [PATCH] experimental numscons support in matplotlib

[David C. <da...@ar...>]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Straw wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> It certainly is of interest to me. When I get a little time (maybe this
> weekend), I'd like to try it. Specifically, I'd like to setup a buildbot
> that would automatically build and run the test suite with it. Along
> those lines, is there any reason why it shouldn't work with Ubuntu Hardy
> amd64 (8.04) and Python 2.5? Or should I try another distro? (I'll be
> setting up a chroot.)
>   

It should work on any distro. I have not tested this really hard yet,
though - but it already works better for me than the current setupext.py
(I may miss something, but the detection fails horribly on my machine,
especially for libs not installed in /usr).

There are some configurations which are not supported yet (wxpython <
2.8, tkagg, and  win32 + mac os x backends), but it should be relatively
easy to add support for it, except maybe for mac os x backend because of
objective c because numscons does not handle objective C yet (my focus
is windows ATM, but if supporting every configuration is a condition for
the patch to be included, I am willing to work on it).

>  looks pretty unintrusive to me -- I can't see why it would hurt to
> include it direct into MPL.

The patch could be made smaller and more robust if I were allowed to do
some basic refactoring to share configuration data between setup.py and
setupscons.py: either fixing setup.py so that it uses a __main__ and
does not execute the whole distutils dance at import time, or as I
usually do in other projects, putting metadata in a separate file.

cheers,

David