Re: [matplotlib-devel] MPL w/package_data

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

Fernando Perez wrote:
> Nadezhda Dencheva wrote:
> 
>> What's wrong with Pete Shinners's smart_istall_data?
>> I am thinking of using it in all our packages, so
>> if someone knows of any drawbacks I'd like to hear
>> about this.
>>
>> I've spent hours trying to construct a distutils hack that
>> will force bdist_wininst to package data correctly and this
>> one just works, (that's why I'm so impressed).
> 
> It seems you guys have found a solution already, but just in case it's
> of any use (now or later), you may want to glance at
> 
> http://projects.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/browser/ipython/trunk/setupext
> 
> This little snippet of code was contributed to ipython long ago, to
> assist with data packaging (compatible with python 2.2, including
> bdist_rpm and bdist_wininst).

My understanding is that both solutions use essentially the same technique for
emulating package_data. The major difference is that the extension in ipython
allows you to specify some data to go wherever --install-data points and some
other data to go into the package itself. I don't think mpl has such a split.
And I don't think it should have one, either!

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