[matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

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

If I do a clean install of mpl master, and then of basemap, basemap 
lands in dist-packages/mpl_toolkits, as it always has.  But now it is 
not found--I can't import it.  It seems that now the *real* mpl_toolkits 
is cleverly hidden inside an egg directory with a monstrous name, 
leaving basemap orphaned in a directory with no __init__.py.  As a 
workaround I can symlink it into the egg location.  I suspect the real 
solution will require basemap to use setuptools, correct?  I don't know 
how to do this, so I hope someone who does will submit a PR.

Eric