I may be imaginining things, but it seems to me that the Windows installer
does not completely update matplotlib. I always seem to need the zip file
also to get updated examples. I discovered this a few releases ago when an
installed version of interactive2.py didn't work after an upgrade.
Am I correct about that? If so, is there anything else in the zip file that
I should be installing? Further, if so, could the Windows installer be
redone to include the updated examples and whatever else?
-gary
Gary Pajer wrote:
I may be imaginining things, but it seems to me that the Windows installer
does not completely update matplotlib. I always seem to need the zip file
also to get updated examples. I discovered this a few releases ago when an
installed version of interactive2.py didn't work after an upgrade.
Am I correct about that? If so, is there anything else in the zip file that
I should be installing? Further, if so, could the Windows installer be
redone to include the updated examples and whatever else?
As far as the examples go, it is not in the scope of distutils to solve this problem. This isn't to say it's not an important problem, just that when distutils was designed, it was designed to do one thing -- build and install 3rd party packages and modules. And I think it works great for that job. Some pacakges (PyOpenGL) solve the problem by putting the demos right in with the the modules. Others (wx) have a separate download for the demos. I tend like the separate download option, but that's just my preference.
As far as mysterious not working bits goes, I'd say that the safest thing to do is to uninstall your previous version before upgrading. I myself don't do this unless I notice something broken or get otherwise suspicious, but that's my bad practice.
Cheers!
Andrew