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

[Vincent Schut]

On 09/11/15 12:40, Nathaniel Smith 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. (Another thing that will bite you in the future is that when you use distutils/setup.py to install a package, then it's impossible to correctly uninstall or upgrade that package later, because it doesn't make a record of what files were installed.)
>
> 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...)

Ha, I somtimes have the feeling that absurdity is part of my job description :-)  I think my habits are still from the pre-pip era (or at least my pre-pip era). So if I run 'pip install .' from the numpy git checkout folder, it should work? Going to try immediately!

Thanks!
Vincent.

>
> -n
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> On Sep 11, 2015 03:30, "Vincent Schut" <schut at sarvision.nl <mailto: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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