Re: [matplotlib-devel] using setuptools by default

[Charlie M. <cw...@gm...>]

     The way mpl uses the basemap toolkit will not work using
setuptools.  This is also an issue that twisted runs into.  Since
matplotlib will be put in one egg folder and basemap will be stuck in
another, trying to import matplotlib.toolkits.basemap will yield an
error.  Just something to think about for down the road, but its
probably not a priority now.

- Charlie

On 12/11/05, Andrew Straw <str...@as...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've added a hopefully innocuous few lines to matplotlib's setup.py:
>
> +
> +try:
> +    from setuptools import setup # use setuptools if possible
> +except ImportError:
> +    pass
> +
>
> This will use setuptools.setup() to install matplotlib if you have
> setuptools installed on your system.  I assume that if you have
> setuptools installed, you want to use it, hence the change. However, I
> thought this may potentially cause issues for folks, so I wanted to
> announce the change here.
>
> This change should have no effect for those without setuptools.  If you
> do have setuptools, it also means that the matplotlib data files are now
> placed in the resulting .egg. I've therefore also modified
> _get_data_path() in lib/matplotlib/__init__.py to support this change.
>
> For more information on setuptools, see
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools
>
>
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