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

[Charlie Moad]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>
wrote:

>
> On 9 Jun, 2008, at 12:07, Charlie Moad wrote:
>
>
>>  I think the
>> 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.
>>
>
> No, the better solution is to investigate why a universal binary wouldn't
> work and try to fix that.  Platform-specific eggs make it very hard to
> distribute apps in a user-friendly way.
>

Ok, so let's probe the distutils list and ask them to add support for fat
binaries.  You would think they could inspect the CFLAGS or library output
with the "file" command to see if the build is outputting fat binaries.

- Charlie
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