[Pythonmac-SIG] [Matplotlib-users] What is the recommended way of Installing MPL 0.9.8 on Leopard?

[Charlie Moad]

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>
>  I think the
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>> best way to move forward is to just post binaries for each architecture
>> and not have a universal build.
>>
>
> Please, Please, Please, NO!


This seems to be the only solution to make "easy_install matplotlib"
actually work.


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> I really think it is very, very important to have universal binaries. We
> really want as few possibilities for what-to-install as possible.
>
> Also, py2app is pretty much out of the question if you're processor
> dependent.
>
> I really appreciate that you've been building Universal -- I'll see what I
> can do to help facilitate that continuing.
>
> For what it's worth, Apple appears to be dropping PPC support for 10.6, so
> someday, this will be a non-issue (quite a ways out, though...)


I thought this was a rumor?  A rumor that my G4 powerbook really hates.


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> Have you tried communicating with either the setuptools folks and.or the
> pyhtonmac folks that work on py2app (maybe on only Ronald now -- what ever
> happened to Bob I.?) about how to fix these issues.
>

No.  Communicating with the setuptools people makes more sense to me, but I
am not currently on the distutils list.

- Charlie
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