[matplotlib-devel] MPL w/package_data

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

Hey all (esp John and Robert),

     So I got sick of telling people package_data was the right
approach and finally just did it.  Code wise it required very little
change.  It did require moving the data files into the matplotlib
module though, so look in lib/matplotlib/mpl-data.  Below is a link to
the sdist from the cvs-source I modified.  Please look at it and try
it out.  You'll notice that all the datapath logic has been removed
from the setup.py file.  All that is done is specifying the
package_data.
     If you guys have no problems with this I will implement it in
cvs.  Obviously we would have to request that the current font and
images directories be removed from cvs.  Hopefully this correct
approach will save us from headaches down the road.

http://euclid.uits.iupui.edu/~cmoad/matplotlib-pkgdata-0.86.2.tar.gz

- Charlie