Re: [matplotlib-devel] MPL w/package_data

[Nadezhda D. <den...@st...>]

Isn't package_data available only in python 2.4?

Robert, thanks for pointing to Pete Shinners' s code
for handling data. As far as I can tell it covers all cases
(even bdist_wininst!).

I was going to suggest using it.

Nadia Dencheva

Charlie Moad wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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