On 04/01/2011 05:01 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I'm going through and removing old and deprecated information from the > source tree. > > I'm noticing that there are two makefiles for OS-X, one at ./make.osx > and one in release/osx/Makefile. The former was updated in Sep 2010, > the latter in Mar 2010. Our installation (installing.rst) recommends > using the one in release/osx. > > Also, the README.txt at the root of the source tree seems to be related > to the Mac OS-X binary installer. We should probably move this > elsewhere and put generic information in this file. > > I'm not actually trying to build on OS-X, I haven't in many years, and I > haven't really followed any of the mailing list threads on this topic -- > so maybe that makes me a good example of a user coming to this blind and > saying: "hey, there's two ways to do it, which is the right one?" > > Mike >
I think they can and should be consolidated, or at least their core functionality should be consolidated. release/osx/Makefile was for official releases, so it includes an "upload" target; ./make.osx was for users to use in building from the repo, so it has gotten most of the updating attention. If the developers with the most OS-X expertise (and that does not include me) could pool that expertise and come up with a more solid framework and documentation for building under OS-X, it might relieve a lot of the frustration that has been expressed on the mailing lists. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
