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

[Matt T. <mat...@gm...>]

That is handy information.  I'll start adding a python.org target.

How broad coverage do we want?
10.6, 10.7, 10.8
system, python.org (2.7, 3.3), brew, macports
virtualenv, no virtualenv
with/without third party X

The testing matrix blows up pretty quickly.  For those of you with longer
memories, where are the corners where things tend to break?

-matt



On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw...> wrote:

> A few hints:
>
> If you just want to build matplotlib for your own computer (and don't
> care about making an installer that will work on anybody else's) then
> you can install from source with very little trouble:
> - You may want to edit setupext.py to limit searching to those dirs that
> really matter, but this is only needed if you have installed extras that
> might conflict.
> - You may want to edit setup.cfg to select a better default back end.
>
> You have to be much more careful if you want to build a binary installer
> that can be used by others. I've found that bdist_mpkg works, and I've
> found it is safest to build on the oldest platform I want the installer
> to support (for example /usr/X11/lib moved in 10.8 or 10.7 in a way that
> is forward but not backwards compatible).
>
> For Apple's python you need install anything; all you need is in
> /usr/lib and /usr/X11/lib. I have no idea if TkAgg works well.
>
> For python.org python you should install a version of Tcl/Tk. I suggest
> ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.11. Be warned that versions 8.5.12, 8.5.12.1,
> 8.5.13 all have known crashing problems; I have not tried 8.5.14 (which
> came out fairly recently) as 8.5.11 seems to do well enough.
>
> I've cannot comment on building matplotlib for macports, fink or
> homebrew.
>
> -- Russell
>
> In article <520...@st...>,
>  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, and obviously that will be
> > shared with the world.  Things are even more complex on Windows, and I'd
> > like to do that there, too.  So stay tuned.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On 08/16/2013 10:02 AM, Paul Hobson wrote:
> > > Mike,
> > >
> > > That's great news. Is there any chance we can look forward to
> > > "official" instructions for setting up a Mac to develop matplotlib?
> > >
> > > I gave up a long time ago and started piecing to together my meager
> > > PRs in a linux VM.
> > > -paul
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Michael Droettboom
> > > <md...@st...
> > > <mailto:md...@st...>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Thanks to the gracious donation from Hans Petter Langtangen and the
> > >     Center for Biomedical Computing at Simula
> > >     (http://home.simula.no/~hpl <http://home.simula.no/%7Ehpl>),
> > >     I now have a new Mac Mini sitting at my desk.  This should allow
> me to
> > >     keep on top of changes that affect the Mac builds and to better
> track
> > >     down Mac-only issues.
> > >
> > >     Stay tuned over the next few weeks and months as we will most
> > >     likely be
> > >     using some more of these funds to pay for hosted continuous
> > >     integration
> > >     services (as discussed yesterday in our MEP19 Google Hangout).
> > >
> > >     Cheers,
> > >     Mike
>
>
>
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