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

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> "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?)
IMO, the way to fix it is to move all the data into
lib/matplotlib/mpl-data to start with. If we did that, all the shuffling
that setup.py does would be unnecessary and using setuptools' develop
mode would work out-of-the-box. I'd be happy to move these files in the
svn repository if people agree this is a good idea.

-Andrew