Re: [matplotlib-devel] Do you use python setup.py build_ext --inplace ?

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"Nicolas Grilly" <nic...@ga...> writes:

> When you are working on matplotlib, after a checkout from the SVN
> repository, which method do you use to compile extensions without
> re-building and re-installing everything each time?

I use "python setupegg.py develop", which I think does the same thing
as build_ext --inplace. I have made a symbolic link for the mpl-data
subdirectory. (Perhaps some setuptools wizard can tell us how to fix
setupegg.py so that mpl-data gets installed in-place?)

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