[GRASS-dev] dateutil dependency killing GRASS 7

[Michael Barton]

Are you sure it is there originally? Or is it present because you have installed other python apps like MatPlotLib? 

Thinking about this, it is really odd that it would somehow stop the GUI from loading at startup. Is there some kind of test for dateutil that happens at startup? 

Even if dateutil is missing, there should not be a crash or error until one of the modules that needs it is run and 'import datetuil' generates an error.

Michael
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On Oct 18, 2012, at 6:43 AM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> I just got some time to briefly look at this - dateutil IS in OS X Python, 2.6 and 2.7.  (checked OS X Lion and Snow Leopard)
> 
> So if Mac users are having problems with a missing dateutil, then maybe they have another Python installed, like from python.org or MacPorts or Homebrew.  Then it's really a problem of installing dateutil in that other distribution.
> 
> On Oct 17, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> This seems like a good idea. Gives us time to think about the value and costs of using and bundling dateutil.
>> 
>> Michael Barton
>> School of Human Evolution &Social Change
>> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> ...Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:34 AM, "Moritz Lennert" <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 17/10/12 13:21, Sören Gebbert wrote:
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> sorry to introduce something painful as a python-dateutil dependency.
>>>> My fault. I should have discussed this on the list indeed.
>>>> 
>>>> I have completely removed the dateutil dependency from the temporal
>>>> GIS in r53435. For now
>>>> only two types of calendar time stings are supported for parsing.
>>> 
>>> Do you really have to remove it completely ? Can't you check for its presence and if not present fall back on the basic date version ? And put a hint in the manuals about its installation being strongly recommended ?
>>> 
>>> Moritz
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