Re: [matplotlib-devel] 0.98.5 windows installer is still overwriting existing configobj (bug # 2400

I had all the build opts explicitly set, so I am not quite sure what
happened.  I'm a little more worried about the error two people have
reported involving matplotlib.conf.template.  This file is present in
the source.

- Charlie

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:53 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:
>> The 0.98.5 windows installer is still overwriting existing installations of
>> configobj. This package is not needed by matplotlib and should not be
>> installed on windows, nor should traits.
>>
>> I have removed configobj and enthought.traits from the trunk, but it is
>> still present on the maintenance branches. On build systems, setup.cfg for
>> the maintenance branches should be configured to not install configobj or
>> traits under any circumstances. Once it has been so configured, the build
>> directory needs to be deleted, because it probably contains a cached copy of
>> configobj that will get incorporated into the installer the next time it is
>> built, regardless of the settings in setup.cfg.
>>
>> This bug has been assigned to me, but it is out of my hands at this point.
>
> Since config obj is removed, it is mostly moot going forward, but it
> appears that something still went wrong with the win32 build process.
> Charlie, are you maintaining a setup.cfg file you use for the win32
> builds that has configobj and traits off?  You also need to make sure
> that you delete the build dir after any changes to setup.cfg before
> rebuilding since cruft in the builddir can get carried along.  I will
> add this to the devel release notes,
>
> JDH
>