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John Hunter wrote:
> Andrew> Also, this is
> Andrew> using the version of matplotlib I checked out with CVS.
> Andrew> This version fails to build the agg backend with:
>
> Andrew> running build_py package init file 'ttfquery/__init__.py'
> Andrew> not found (or not a regular file) package init file
> Andrew> 'FontTools/__init__.py' not found (or not a regular file)
> Andrew> package init file 'FontTools/fontTools/__init__.py' not
> Andrew> found (or not a regular file) package init file
> Andrew> 'FontTools/fontTools/encodings/__init__.py' not found (or
> Andrew> not a regular file) error: package directory
> Andrew> 'FontTools/fontTools/misc' does not exist
>
> I won't get a chance to look at your fill code til Monday (which BTW
> is something I've been wanting to add for a while), but the main
> problem here is that CVS doesn't have a complete version of the
> FontTools* and ttf* that are needed to build from src. The 0.51
> release is actually quite up to date and you would probably be best
> off just working in that tree for now. vis-a-vis FontTools and
> ttfquery - an increasing number of matplotlib backends need ttf font
> finding capabilitlities which FontTools and ttfquery provide.
> However, they are big and a pain to install and Paul Barrett has been
> working on a replacement. At one point I added them to CVS since I
> was distributing them with matplotlib but thought twice about it and
> tried to remove them. However despite multiple attempts I have not
> been able to get them out of CVS (a free beer to anyone with commit
> privs who can purge these bastards). No in a nutshell there is an
> incomplete version of FontTools and ttfquery in CVS.
This is one of the downsides of CVS; it doesn't deal with directories 
very well (or at all). A SourceForge support request would be required 
for one of their admins to go into CVSROOT and manually do this.
What's wrong with distributing them via CVS, at least while they're 
distributed in the officially released matplotlib sources? It would 
made things a bit cleaner for those willing to live on the bleeding 
edge. (Then again, I suppose those willing to live on the bleeding 
edge are probably also be happy copy a few directories around, too. At 
least as long as we know what to do.)
> If you want to build from CVS, copy the agg, FontTools* and ttfquery
> dirs/files from the 0.51 src distro into the CVS tree and build from
> there.
Works like a charm!
Cheers!
Andrew