All-in-one distribution of python/numpy/scipy/mpl for windows

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Thanks for the pointer to the new egg installer of Enthought.
Nice app, which I will use.

But this is, IMHO, not what we need to move the python/numpy/scipy/mpl combo into the more mainstream use.
Many potential users won’t know what to do with the long list of packages that they have never heard of.

I think it would be very useful to have one installer that gets a reasonable distrubtion installed (like the old Enthought installer).
Isn’t something like that in the works for the Mac?
We can even make a python/numpy/scipy/mpl and then a seperate one that also includes ipython and wxpython, for example.

Or maybe a webpage where you can just select what eggs to install.
Would that be doable?
Anybody else think this is what we need?

Mark

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Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:17:47 -0500
From: Robert Kern <robert.kern@…287…>
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] use of enthought Python for
matplotlib/numpy

To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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Giorgio Luciano wrote:

I would add one box of donuts, since I’m trying to make my own
distribution with numpy/scipy/matplotlib but with no success.
and the problem is the same is for a classroom :wink: If anyone knows also a

portable distribution with this package I will add extra donuts :wink:

While we at Enthought are not updating the all-in-one installer anymore, we are
distributing up-to-date binaries as eggs.


http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/

–
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

Message: 8
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:48:59 -0500
From: “John Hunter” <
jdh2358@…287…>
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplolib equivalent of gnuplot’s
impulse
To: Emmanuel <emmanuel@…1321…>
Cc: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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<88e473830705110948p1a83230dwa5041bcf24f7be83@…288…

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On 5/3/07, Emmanuel <emmanuel@…1321…> wrote:

With gnuplot one can do a plot like that :

http://www.deqnotes.net/gnuplot/images/impulses.png

It is using option “with impulse”.
Is there an equivalent in matplotlib?

In [5]: t = arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.05)

In [6]: s = sin(2pit)

In [7]: vlines(t, 0, s)
Out[7]: <matplotlib.collections

Message: 9
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:05:04 +0200

From: “Antonino Ingargiola” <tritemio@…287…>
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplolib equivalent of gnuplot’s
impulse
To: “John Hunter” <
jdh2358@…287…>
Cc: Emmanuel <emmanuel@…1321…>,

matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID:
<5486cca80705111005h5136ff86ree4e7cd94ff12b33@…288…>

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2007/5/11, John Hunter <jdh2358@…287…>:

On 5/3/07, Emmanuel < > emmanuel@…1321…> wrote:

With gnuplot one can do a plot like that :

http://www.deqnotes.net/gnuplot/images/impulses.png

It is using option “with impulse”.
Is there an equivalent in matplotlib?

In [5]: t = arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.05)

In [6]: s = sin(2pit)

In [7]: vlines(t, 0, s)
Out[7]: <matplotlib.collections

You are right! Very nice :-).

~ Antonio

Message: 10
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:54:36 -0700 (PDT)

From: kc106_2005-matplotlib@…9…
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG
To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Message-ID: <214374.11818.qm@…1596…>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii

Thanks everybody for the explanation of svg in Gimp. That makes sense. Is there any vector based program that does what Gimp does?

Did you try eps rather than ps?

Eric

Yes, I tried eps. Word won’t recognize that neither.

As to the EMF format, I downloaded the package and attempted to apply the patch. Failed - probably because it’s intended for 0.85 only. I am running 0.90 of MPL. Has anybody added EMF support to MPL 0.90 successfully?

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It seems like it would be a relatively easy thing for a Novice mode to be added to the Enstaller. The novice mode would just show you three happy buttons: install, upgrade, and uninstall. Under the hood it would be picking some particular set of packages for you. In fact even for experts it would be nice if there were some buttons that would select a sane set of standard packages from the list. There was just way too much stuff there the last time I tried it. I also had trouble telling what it was actually doing so I just went back to easy_install from the command line.

Er, but this is probably a discussion for an enthought mailing list, not matplotlib…

–bb

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On 5/14/07, Mark Bakker < markbak@…287…> wrote:

Thanks for the pointer to the new egg installer of Enthought.

Nice app, which I will use.

But this is, IMHO, not what we need to move the python/numpy/scipy/mpl combo into the more mainstream use.
Many potential users won’t know what to do with the long list of packages that they have never heard of.

I think it would be very useful to have one installer that gets a reasonable distrubtion installed (like the old Enthought installer).
Isn’t something like that in the works for the Mac?
We can even make a python/numpy/scipy/mpl and then a seperate one that also includes ipython and wxpython, for example.

Or maybe a webpage where you can just select what eggs to install.
Would that be doable?
Anybody else think this is what we need?

Mark

Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:17:47 -0500
From: Robert Kern <robert.kern@…287…>
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] use of enthought Python for

    matplotlib/numpy

To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID: <
f224vf$blu$1@…328…>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Giorgio Luciano wrote:

I would add one box of donuts, since I’m trying to make my own
distribution with numpy/scipy/matplotlib but with no success.
and the problem is the same is for a classroom :wink: If anyone knows also a

portable distribution with this package I will add extra donuts :wink:

While we at Enthought are not updating the all-in-one installer anymore, we are
distributing up-to-date binaries as eggs.

[

http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/](http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/)

–
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

Message: 8
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:48:59 -0500
From: “John Hunter” <

jdh2358@…287…>
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplolib equivalent of gnuplot’s
impulse
To: Emmanuel <
emmanuel@…1321…>
Cc: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID:
<
88e473830705110948p1a83230dwa5041bcf24f7be83@…288…

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

On 5/3/07, Emmanuel <emmanuel@…1321… > > > wrote:

With gnuplot one can do a plot like that :

http://www.deqnotes.net/gnuplot/images/impulses.png

It is using option “with impulse”.

Is there an equivalent in matplotlib?

In [5]: t = arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.05)

In [6]: s = sin(2pit)

In [7]: vlines(t, 0, s)
Out[7]: <matplotlib.collections

Message: 9
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:05:04 +0200

From: “Antonino Ingargiola” <tritemio@…287…>
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplolib equivalent of gnuplot’s

    impulse

To: “John Hunter” <
jdh2358@…287…>
Cc: Emmanuel <
emmanuel@…1321…>,

matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID:
<
5486cca80705111005h5136ff86ree4e7cd94ff12b33@…288…>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

2007/5/11, John Hunter <jdh2358@…287…

:
On 5/3/07, Emmanuel < > > emmanuel@…1321…> wrote:

With gnuplot one can do a plot like that :


http://www.deqnotes.net/gnuplot/images/impulses.png

It is using option “with impulse”.
Is there an equivalent in matplotlib?

In [5]: t = arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.05)

In [6]: s = sin(2pit)

In [7]: vlines(t, 0, s)
Out[7]: <matplotlib.collections

You are right! Very nice :-).

~ Antonio

Message: 10
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:54:36 -0700 (PDT)

From: kc106_2005-matplotlib@…9…
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG
To:
matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Message-ID: <214374.11818.qm@…1596…>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii

Thanks everybody for the explanation of svg in Gimp. That makes sense. Is there any vector based program that does what Gimp does?

Did you try eps rather than ps?

Eric

Yes, I tried eps. Word won’t recognize that neither.

As to the EMF format, I downloaded the package and attempted to apply the patch. Failed - probably because it’s intended for 0.85 only. I am running 0.90 of MPL. Has anybody added EMF support to MPL 0.90 successfully?

Regards,

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Mark Bakker wrote:

I think it would be very useful to have one installer that gets a
reasonable distrubtion installed (like the old Enthought installer).
Isn't something like that in the works for the Mac?

Not anymore it isn't. We are in the process of building eggs for the Mac, though.

···

--
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

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Robert Kern wrote:

Mark Bakker wrote:

I think it would be very useful to have one installer that gets a
reasonable distrubtion installed (like the old Enthought installer).
Isn't something like that in the works for the Mac?

Not anymore it isn't. We are in the process of building eggs for the Mac, though.

What's the plan with:

  - PPC vs. Intel -- has someone figured out how to make Universal binaries from Fortran?

  - wxPython versioning -- though if you go with 2.8+ you should be able to keep that easy. If you need some wxPython/MPL testing -- let me know, and I'll try to help.

-Chris

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Christopher Barker wrote:

Robert Kern wrote:

Mark Bakker wrote:

I think it would be very useful to have one installer that gets a
reasonable distrubtion installed (like the old Enthought installer).
Isn't something like that in the works for the Mac?

Not anymore it isn't. We are in the process of building eggs for the Mac, though.

What's the plan with:

  - PPC vs. Intel -- has someone figured out how to make Universal
binaries from Fortran?

I think we're just going to build on Intel. Most things will be Universal, but
scipy won't.

  - wxPython versioning -- though if you go with 2.8+ you should be able
to keep that easy. If you need some wxPython/MPL testing -- let me know,
and I'll try to help.

We're looking at moving our stuff to wx 2.8 in the near term, so probably that.

···

--
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