[Numpy-discussion] Wanted: new release manager for 1.5 and above

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 5:19 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Ralf Gommers
> > From working on
> > the docs and scikits.image I am familiar with most of NumPy/SciPy, but
> not
> > with the C internals.
>
> That's not a problem - I was not either when I started doing it. And
> there are still a lot of areas I am not familiar with. There is no
> need to know everything about numpy to do a good job.
>

Good, then I'll start learning.

>
> One thing you could start doing is trying to make the mac os x dmg
> from the paver script, and familiarize yourself with virtualenv if you
> don't know it (I use virtualenv to install numpy in a temporary
> directory before building the doc - this guarantees that the doc
> matches the exact same version of numpy as the one you are packaging).
> I spent some time cleaning the paver script before the 1.4.0 release,
> so it should hopefully be readable.
>
>
The paver script is indeed very readable. I'm familiar with virtualenv, and
just tried building a dmg. So here's my first question:
You use virtualenv with the --no-site-packages option. This means a whole
bunch of stuff already present on my machine has to be downloaded again when
building the docs (sphinx, numpydoc, pygments, jinja, etc). You get Sphinx
0.6.4 when you need 1.0 (I think), and doc generation fails because MPL can
not be found. What am I missing here? And what is the problem with using
site-packages?

Cheers,
Ralf
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