Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

[Ken M. <mc...@ii...>]

On Feb 23, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Andrew Straw wrote:
>
> 2) make our own distutils monkeypatch a la setuptools. Looking at
> setuptools/dist.py, this doesn't look trivial -- certainly beyond my
> free bandwidth capacity.

I've written a script that attempts to simplify writing setup.py's  
that includes automagic support for package_data in Python 2.3:

	http://agni.phys.iit.edu/~kmcivor/downloads/metasetup.py

You can see a simple example of it in the WxMpl source:

	http://svn.csrri.iit.edu/mr-software/wxmpl/trunk/setup.py

Ken