Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On 4/5/07, Robert Kern <rob...@gm...> wrote:

> The purpose of ez_setup.py was to give people a migration path such that they
> could write project that used setuptools, but ensure that their users wouldn't
> have to go install another package themselves.
>
> It's deprecated now. Don't use it.

So from this I take that our current approach advising people to use
ez_setup.pu if setuptools are not available is also a bad idea.
Currently we

    try: import setuptools
    except ImportError:
        raise SystemExit("""\
matplotlib requires setuptools for installation.  Please 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.  If this is your first time upgrading
matplotlib with the new setuptools requirement, you must delete the
old matplotlib install directory.""")