[Matplotlib-devel] mpl 2.1 + subprocess32

[Jens Nielsen]

I think it still true, I guess you can hack sys.path but perhaps we don't
need to worry about that

On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 at 13:57 Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Jens Nielsen <jenshnielsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Another possible solution could be to drop the dependency on subprocess32
> > but retain the use of it in compat/subprocess.py and fallback to regular
> > subprocess if not found and then document that if a user sees
> > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5314 they should install
> > subprocess32. There should be few issues with dropping the dependency on
> > Linux as the main bug it resolves is OSX specific.
> >
> > Furthermore 5314 should have been resolved in python 2.7.12 so the
> surface
> > for seeing the bug on OSX is getting smaller.
>
> Excellent news!
>
> > Unfortunately Apple still
> > ships python 2.7.10 as the default python on OSX in Sierra (10.12)
>
> The last time I looked into this, a default install of matplotlib into
> system Python gets ignored because of the extra libraries "feature"
>
>
> https://github.com/MacPython/wiki/wiki/Which-Python#system-python-and-extra-python-packages
>
> Is that no longer true?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
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