[GRASS-dev] PIL needs to be a GRASS dependency

[Michael Barton]

Thanks William.

Your package makes this work OK. I had only been able to install PIL for Python 2.7, but had compiled GRASS 7 with Python 2.6. This left the cartographic composer only partly workable. This could be a problem for others. These extra python packages not only need to be installed, but need to be installed for whatever version  of Python that GRASS is compiled with. This is a similar issue to what we ran into with wxPython. I don't know how this is handled in Windows, but could potentially be a problem there too. 

I'm not sure how to best handle this.

Michael
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On Nov 22, 2011, at 9:05 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> Well, I have Mac PIL and Numpy packages.  I don't think Python modules are something you should be bundling in GRASS binaries, since users may already have them installed.
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> If the GRASS installer (at least on OS X) could check for dependencies it wouldn't such a problem, since GRASS would simply not install and tell you what is missing.  That's been a low priority on my list to do for a while - add some mechanism for extending the installer creation in the bindist target, to allow packagers to specify dependency checks (it's not something that's easy or practical to do automatically based on configured dependencies).
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> On Nov 22, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
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>> Since the Python Imaging Library (PIL) is needed to fully use the cartographic composer, this needs to be a dependency of GRASS, just like numpy. Since both of these packages do not come with the standard Python distribution, it would be good if we could package/bundle them in binary distributions. Otherwise, stuff will not work. This is needed for GRASS 6.4 as well as GRASS 7. I'm not sure what is needed for this to happen, but it will be helpful to users (and very frustrating to them if not there).
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>> Michael
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