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

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

Andrew Straw wrote:
> David Cournapeau wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I don't know if that's of any interest for matplotlib developers,
>> but I added scripts to build matplotlib with numscons:
>>
>> http://github.com/cournape/matplotlib/tree/scons_build
>>
>> Not every configuration is supported yet, but I can successfully build
>> matplotlib on Linux with gtk or wx backends. It only adds 3 files + one
>> configuration example, and does not touch any other file.
>>
>> The advantage of numscons over distutils is automatic dependency
>> handling (no need to rm -rf build to get accurate build), easy compiler
>> flags customization, parallel build, etc... There are some instructions
>> in setupscons.py.
>>
>> It is still experimental (I have not implemented check for QT, as well
>> as windows, macosx and qt backends), but it seems to work well. I will
>> add mac os x and windows backends soon (I started this to debug issues
>> on 64 bits version of matplotlib),
>>     
>
> Dear David,
>
> It certainly is of interest to me. When I get a little time (maybe this
> weekend), I'd like to try it.

I have a question about git as well, actually - I could not update the
svn metadata, unfortunately, by using git-svn rebase -l (I used your
branch on github and the instructions on matplotlib website). It gives
me an awful lot of merging errors, which seems to indicate that git-svn
is confused about the current state,

cheers,

David