[GRASS-dev] dateutil dependency killing GRASS 7

[William Kyngesburye]

Yes, it is in the system python lib folder on all the Macs I checked.

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.x/Extras/lib/python/dateutil

If compilation of matplotlib found it is missing, it would put it in the user site-packages folder (it does so for pytz and mpl_toolkits).

On Oct 20, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Are you sure it is there originally? Or is it present because you have installed other python apps like MatPlotLib? 
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> 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? 
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> 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.
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> On Oct 18, 2012, at 6:43 AM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
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>> 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)
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>> 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.
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>> On Oct 17, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
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>>> This seems like a good idea. Gives us time to think about the value and costs of using and bundling dateutil.
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>>> Michael Barton
>>> School of Human Evolution &Social Change
>>> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>>> Arizona State University
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>>> ...Sent from my iPad
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>>> On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:34 AM, "Moritz Lennert" <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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 ?
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>>>> Moritz
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