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

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Saturday 03 March 2007 12:43:53 pm you wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <str...@as...> 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.
>
> This is fine by me -- I actually was forced to think about this this
> morning as I tried to upgrade my powerbook to the latest svn. =A0I'm
> still on python2.3, and when I tried to install I hit the setuptools
> import. =A0I figured I would be a good crash test dummy to see how easy
> it was to install setuptools, so I poked around and found the ez_setup
> and am off to the races. =A0I added a friendly exception to setup.py to
> make it easier for the next guy
>
> if major=3D=3D2 and minor1<=3D3:
> =A0 =A0 # setuptools monkeypatches distutils.core.Distribution to support
> =A0 =A0 # package_data
> =A0 =A0 try: import setuptools
> =A0 =A0 except ImportError:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 raise SystemExit("""\
> matplotlib requires setuptools for installation. =A0Please download
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py and run it (as su if
> you are doing a system wide install) to install the proper version of
> setuptools for your system""")

Excellent, I was going to add a warning like this myself if the setuptools=
=20
approach was accepted.

> Darren, do you still have the html docs building on your system? =A0If
> so, perhaps you could update the installing page to mention the
> requirement (an perhaps the user's guide). =A0I updated the README in
> the src distro. =A0I still haven't got my build pipeline for the htdocs
> and user's guide going on my laptop after my old build computer died,
> a good indication that both are too complicated....

Yes, I am set up to build the html docs (in fact, I have been working a bit=
 on=20
the users guide this morning.) I'll update the webpage this afternoon.

Darren