[Matplotlib-devel] matplotlib keeps installing it's own (older) numpy

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> Did you use pip to install those in-development versions of numpy etc., or
> just 'setup.py install'? The latter is unfortunately broken in several ways
> -- what might be biting you here is that it does not install the package
> metadata (.egg-info or .dist-info) that setuptools and pip need to know
> whether numpy is installed or not, what version it is, etc. -- this is
> separate from just having a numpy directory on your pythonpath.
>
weird that

setup.py develop --nodeps doesn't work, though.

> The best / only correct way to install a package from source or a git
> checkout is 'pip install <source dir>'; never run setup.py directly.
>
> (Yes, this is absurd, but I don't make the rules...)
>
> Yeah, the separation of concerns of distutils, setuptools, pipi, etc is a
big hairy mess.

But we *could* force, or at least encourage, the use of setuptools in the
numpy build. The reason pip works is because it Monkey-patches setuptools
into the install process.

Or maybe I'm am mis-informed - this is very tangled up!

-CHB




> -n
> On Sep 11, 2015 03:30, "Vincent Schut" <schut at sarvision.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm used to working with unstable versions for most of my numpy/scipy/etc
>> stack (usually from git head). So I have installed numpy
>> 1.11.0.dev0-3397fce, scipy 0.17.0.dev0-279ef0c, etc. I have extracted
>> matplotlib from git, but when I build this ("python setup.py build", or
>> even with "python setup.py develop --no-deps"), it keeps building it's own
>> numpy 1.9.2 egg, look at this snippet of the output:
>>
>> ...
>> Installed
>> /usr/local/src/matplotlib/.eggs/numpy-1.9.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:316: UserWarning:
>> Module numpy was already imported from
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/__init__.pyc, but
>> /usr/local/src/matplotlib/.eggs/numpy-1.9.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg is being
>> added to sys.path
>> ...
>>
>> Strange thing is, in the beginning matplotlib seems to happily recognize
>> my numpy:
>>
>> REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES AND EXTENSIONS
>>                  numpy: yes [version 1.11.0.dev0+3397fce]
>>               dateutil: yes [using dateutil version 2.4.2]
>>                   pytz: yes [using pytz version 2015.4]
>>                 cycler: yes [using cycler version 0.9.0]
>>                tornado: yes [using tornado version 4.2.1]
>>              pyparsing: yes [using pyparsing version 2.0.3]
>>                 libagg: yes [Requires patches that have not been merged
>>                         upstream. Using local copy.]
>>               freetype: yes [version 2.6.0]
>>                    png: yes [version 1.6.18]
>>                  qhull: yes [pkg-config information for 'qhull' could not
>> be
>>                         found. Using local copy.]
>>
>> However, it immediately starts building numpy 1.9.2 after that.
>>
>> Having more than one version of numpy (or whatever python package) just
>> messes up my system, I don't want several different versions of numpy to
>> co-exist. Anything I can do to make matplotlib recognize and use my numpy
>> from git?
>>
>> Best,
>> Vincent.
>>
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