On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Jens Nielsen <jen...@gm...>wrote: > On my mac box I'm just using homebrew www.brew.sh to install the latest > python along with all non python dependencies and the python dependencies > via pip. This seems to work great most of the time. > Jens > > Yeah. I'm sure Homebrew has made a lot of progress since I last tried. A couple of years ago I found a couple of blog posts that all walked you through different ways of getting a dev environment going for the various flavors of python installed (it was never /all/ available through Homebrew). Sometimes one would work for me. Eventually I just said, "screw it" and installed Anaconda for use and fired up a VM for development. I guess my point is that it'd be nice to have documentation on matplotlib.org that says, "Here's how Mike D. sets up his Mac to build mpl from source". Because if it works well enough for Mike, it'll probably work well enough for me. (Now if only pandas would do the same thing.) A similar document would be great for Windows too. -paul > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>wrote: > >> We actually discussed this very issue yesterday in our Google hangout >> about continuous integration. We're probably going to need to script a >> full setup from a clean Mac + XCode to a working matplotlib development >> environment in order to make that happen, and obviously that will be shared >> with the world. Things are even more complex on Windows, and I'd like to >> do that there, too. So stay tuned. >> >> Mike >> >> >> On 08/16/2013 10:02 AM, Paul Hobson wrote: >> >> Mike, >> >> That's great news. Is there any chance we can look forward to >> "official" instructions for setting up a Mac to develop matplotlib? >> >> I gave up a long time ago and started piecing to together my meager PRs >> in a linux VM. >> -paul >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>wrote: >> >>> Thanks to the gracious donation from Hans Petter Langtangen and the >>> Center for Biomedical Computing at Simula (http://home.simula.no/~hpl), >>> I now have a new Mac Mini sitting at my desk. This should allow me to >>> keep on top of changes that affect the Mac builds and to better track >>> down Mac-only issues. >>> >>> Stay tuned over the next few weeks and months as we will most likely be >>> using some more of these funds to pay for hosted continuous integration >>> services (as discussed yesterday in our MEP19 Google Hangout). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mike >>> >> >