Re: [Matplotlib-users] Any progress on binary installer for OSX?

[Matthew B. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Matthew Brett <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw...> wrote:
>> In article
>> <CAH...@ma...>,
>>  Matthew Brett <mat...@gm...>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Michael Droettboom
>>> <md...@st...> wrote:
>>> > Matthew Terry, as part of his Mac testing project, has done a great deal of
>>> > reconnaissance on this.
>>> >
>>> > https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl_mac_testing
>>> >
>>> > I know he was looking into statically linking some of the C dependencies
>>> > (freetype, libpng etc.) as a way to make the installer more robust to
>>> > different environments.
>>>
>>> Thanks - that looks like a useful testing grid.
>>>
>>> Are there any near-term plans for something like a .dmg or .mpkg or
>>> .pkg installer?
>>
>> Building a binary installer with statically linked libraries is not
>> terribly hard (see
>> <http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/BuildingMatplotlibForMac.htm
>> l>). There are two problem:
>> - As of 1.3.0 mpl does not include python-dateutil, pytz or six (for
>> good reasons) and that makes it harder to make a really usable binary
>> installer. This interacts with the next problem:
>> - For unknown reasons running the 1.3.0 installer breaks existing
>> installations of python-dateutil if those packages were installed using
>> an older mpl binary installer.
>>
>> The missing packages can be added to the binary installer after it is
>> produced by bdist_mpkg by post-processing the mpkg. That would take care
>> of the second issue for most users (who would use the default
>> installation and get everything). I have not had time to deal with that.
>> Thus I never uploaded an official binary installer for 1.3.0 and stopped
>> providing them. Matthew Terry has taken over that task.
>
> Aha - yes - postprocessing the mpkg would be pretty easy.
>
> So - I guess I should just build the installer myself and post it for
> testing?  Is that the best way forward?

OK - after a lot of blood, sweat and tears:

http://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/practical_neuroimaging/matplotlib-1.3.1-py2.7-macosx10.6.mpkg.zip

- a standalone binary installer for matplotlib 1.3.1, including:

tornado
pyparsing
python-dateutil
pytz
six

Please do test.

It imports on my machines (10.6, 10.7 * 2, 10.8), I am just running the tests.

I'm building from a waf build that should be replicable:

https://github.com/matthew-brett/mpl-osx-binaries

On a 10.6 and a 10.8 machine I get a couple of test errors, log attached:

ERROR: matplotlib.tests.test_backend_pgf.test_pathclip
ERROR: matplotlib.tests.test_backend_pgf.test_mixedmode

One (clean) 10.7 passes, another 10.7 machine gives the same errors as
above plus 2 ghostscript errors.

Cheers,

Matthew