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

[Edin S. <edi...@gm...>]

On 4/5/07, Robert Kern <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> Oh, you're requiring setuptools now? I didn't notice that. Cool.
>
> I'd point them here for up-to-date instructions and downloads:
>
>   http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptools

Thanks Robert for the insight!  I updated the installation
instructions for setuptools in setup.py to point to the link you
mentioned.

Unfortunately, the official docs for setuptools
(http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools) point to
downloading ez_setup.py --- nowhere near mentioning it's deprecated.

Still, being able to point users to download one file (ez_setup.py),
and run it to install setuptools on *every* system is very tempting.
Especially, when you can point them to just run:
python ez_setup.py matplotlib
to install the latest version of matplotlib.

Edin