Re: [Matplotlib-users] cant find numerix in cvs

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

On Friday 25 February 2005 11:33 am, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
>
>     Darren> Hi, I am trying to install from cvs, but am getting error
>     Darren> messages that the numerix module is missing. It is not
>     Darren> listed on the "browse cvs repository" page at sourceforge
>     Darren> either.
>
> Try getting a new CVS checkout in a clean directory and rm -rf
> site-packages/matplotlib before rebuilding.  The numerix module does
> exist in CVS:
>
>  
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/matplotlib/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/
>numerix/
>
> The numerix code was reorganized in 0.71 so if you are using an older
> version that can cause problems.  The first line of defense when
> confronting a matplotlib bug is
>
>   > sudo rm -rf build /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotib
>   > sudo python setup.py install
>
> distutils keeps old code around in the build directory.  If for
> example you have somemod.so from an older mpl version, and then we
> refactor to use somemod.py which conditionally imports _na_somemod.so
> or _nc_somemod.so depending on your numerix setting, the old
> somemod.so will be installed from your build dir into site-packages
> alongside somemod.py but the old *.so will be imported rather than the
> new *.py.  This has caused us lots of problems - I don't think a
> 'python setup.py clean' will solve every problem, but flushing the
> build directory and site-packages/matplotlib before a new install has
> cured lots of bugs.
>
> Or else sourceforge CVS is whacked, which would not bee too
> surprising.
>


My mistake. I thought I had cleared the build and site-packages/mpl directory, 
but I guess I overlooked something. I did a new cvs co and numerix is back. 
Thanks.

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Darren