Re: [matplotlib-devel] Is anyone using make.osx?

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2012/09/07 6:56 AM, Daniel Hyams wrote:
> I do, but I'm not wedded to it; I'll use whatever is there.  The
> convenience of it is that it downloaded dependencies and built them for
> you.  Will setup.py do the same?

No, it won't.  The problem with make.osx in that regard is that the 
dependencies and their urls are version-dependent and ever-changing, so 
a single make.osx would need to be much more complex than the present 
one is, and to be maintained, which the present one mostly was not.

Eric

>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...
> <mailto:md...@st...>> wrote:
>
>     There is a discussion in a pull request about whether it is still
>     needed.
>
>     https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/751
>
>     It would be nice to have one obvious way to build on OS-X, so it makes
>     sense to remove this file in that case.  However, I thought it might be
>     worth casting this question out before doing so.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Mike
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