FreeImage binaries

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Zachary Pincus <zachary.pincus at yale.edu> wrote:
> That's a decent idea -- and that way, we could only fetch the appropriate binary for each bdist, instead of shipping all of them.
>
> Any way to make the install command do this as well, for those who install from source?
>
> In either case, though, I'm a bit out of my element in the distutils hackery to make this sort of thing happen...

As a start, how about just getting a Python script going for doing the
fetching + moving?  Once that is done, I think it won't be too hard to
get distutils to play along.  At worst, we can tell all Windows/Mac
users to do

from skimage import install_libs
install_libs()

after installation.

Cheers
Stéfan