On Thursday 24 April 2008 10:45:33 pm John Hunter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Darren Dale <dar...@co...> wrote: > > I have been developing a data acquisition and analysis program for my > > lab, and we are actually in the process of using it it this week and next > > to run experiments with our visiting scientists. I've been running > > matplotlib from svn for as long as I can remember and hadn't anticipated > > trouble. I guess I just wasn't reading the dev list closely enough since > > I rely on the trunk for daily use. > > I can appreciate that you are in production mode and have very little > > of any time for distraction, but if you get a minute try: > > svn co http://svn.scipy.org/svn/numpy/trunk numpy > > cd numpy/ > > python setup.py build > > sudo python setup.py install > > Make sure you "rm -rf build" your mpl build dir and get a clean mpl > rebuild afterward. I would be very surprised if you encounter any > troubles. The numpy folks have been doing a tremendous amount of > work to get svn ready for a 1.1 release, and you owe it to yourself to > be on the latest. I think I'm up and running. I'm not sure that the gentoo's lapack and blas were recognized, but thats because gentoo does some non standard naming of the f77blas. Also, there were a few changes I had to make for my project to work with numpy-svn, related to the behavior of ndarray.flat. Hopefully none of the other tools I depend on will have much trouble with numpy-1.1.