John Hunter wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Robert Kern <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> The purpose of ez_setup.py was to give people a migration path such that they
>> could write project that used setuptools, but ensure that their users wouldn't
>> have to go install another package themselves.
>>
>> It's deprecated now. Don't use it.
>
> So from this I take that our current approach advising people to use
> ez_setup.pu if setuptools are not available is also a bad idea.
> Currently we
>
> try: import setuptools
> except ImportError:
> raise SystemExit("""\
> matplotlib requires setuptools for installation. Please download
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py and run it (as su if
> you are doing a system wide install) to install the proper version of
> setuptools for your system. If this is your first time upgrading
> matplotlib with the new setuptools requirement, you must delete the
> old matplotlib install directory.""")
Oh, you're requiring setuptools now? I didn't notice that. Cool.
I'd point them here for up-to-date instructions and downloads:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptools
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco