[yt-dev] Fwd: [yt_analysis/yt] Removing freetype routines and the freetype dependency. (pull request #256)

[Matthew Turk]

Recently it's been brought up that the freetype2 dependency is not
used or advertised in yt, and it adds a good chunk of time to the
install script and dependencies too.  This removes that dependency in
the install script and the build-time need for it.

As noted in the PR itself, I'm a bit uncertain if this will cause
problems, as the freetype we installed also acted to meet the
dependency in matplotlib.  I am fine with reverting this change if
need be, to ensure smooth sailing for installing matplotlib.  Could a
handful of people test this out?

Thanks,

Matt


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From: Matthew Turk <pullrequests-noreply at bitbucket.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:49 AM
Subject: [yt_analysis/yt] Removing freetype routines and the freetype
dependency. (pull request #256)
To: yt at enzotools.org


A new pull request has been opened by Matthew Turk.

MatthewTurk/yt has changes to be pulled into yt_analysis/yt.

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-request/256/removing-freetype-routines-and-the

Title: Removing freetype routines and the freetype dependency.

In an effort to slim down the installation size, as well as remove
unnecessary  routines, this PR removed FreeType2 and the routines that
use it directly.

I have two concerns:

1) This means an additional system-level package has to be installed
for Matplotlib, which may not universally be the case.
2) There may be a handful of people out there who use this on a regular basis.

Changes to be pulled:



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