From 7a0c1f6f8b4de7ade78f6f088fd93d8da814b934 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan van der Walt Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:53:29 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Add FreeImage as optional dependency. --- DEPENDS.txt | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/DEPENDS.txt b/DEPENDS.txt index b8942556..2792870b 100644 --- a/DEPENDS.txt +++ b/DEPENDS.txt @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ examples in the documentation. Known build errors ------------------ On Windows, the error ``Error:unable to find vcvarsall.bat`` means that -distutils is not correctly configured to use the C compiler. Edit (create +distutils is not correctly configured to use the C compiler. Modify (or create, if not existing) the configuration file ``distutils.cfg`` (located for -example at ``C:\Python26\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg``) to be:: +example at ``C:\Python26\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg``) to contain:: [build] compiler=mingw32 @@ -21,13 +21,16 @@ example at ``C:\Python26\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg``) to be:: Usage Requirements ------------------ -* `Scipy `_ +* `Scipy `__ Optional Requirements --------------------- You can use this scikit with the basic requirements listed above, but some functionality is only available with the following installed: -`PyQt4 `_ - The `qt` plugin that provides ``imshow(x, fancy=True)`` and `skivi`. +`PyQt4 `__ + The ``qt`` plugin that provides ``imshow(x, fancy=True)`` and `skivi`. +`FreeImage `__ + The ``freeimage`` plugin provides support for reading various types of + image file formats, including multi-page TIFFs.