Re: [matplotlib-devel] I have a Mac!

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <
chr...@no...> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>
> wrote:
> > We actually discussed this very issue yesterday in our Google hangout
> about
> > continuous integration.  We're probably going to need to script a full
> setup
> > from a clean Mac + XCode to a working matplotlib development environment
> in
> > order to make that happen,
>
> Just a note -- this did NOT "just work" the other day for me -- it
> found the freetype libs that OS-X has in the X11 build, but didn't
> like them at compile time. I haven't debugged it yet, sorry.
>
> But the real trick here is what you want to build: which OS-X versions
> do you want to support? which architectures? which Python Build(s)?
>
> What I've been planning on doing is setting up a gitHub (or something)
> project for building the various dependencies that various python
> packages need -- there are a few that are broadly used: libpng,
> libfreetype (used by MPL, PIL, wxPython, ???). The idea is that if you
> wanted to build MPL (or PIL, or ???) you'd grab the
> MacPyton_Dependencies project, build it, then go from there.
>
> Anyone want to help? It just feels like we are all repeating
> each-others work a LOT here!
>
> NOTE: the big issues come up if you want to build binaries that are
> re-distributable (as a package, or with py2app, or???). In this case,
> you need binaries that can run on perhaps older machines than the one
> you're building on, or a different architecture. Building to run on
> the machine it's built-on is a lot easier. (particularly with macport
> or homebrew)
>
> -CHB


Wow! Ambitious. I'll try to keep track of this and help out where possible.

Side note: it'll probably be good to alert the pandas folks to such a
project. I feel like they're always on Macs at their presentations. They
probably have some good ideas for this stuff.
-p