On Fri 04 May 2012 06:36:14 PM CEST, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Tiago de Paula Peixoto <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On 05/04/2012 06:04 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I don't see a way to install graph-tool using pip. Port on Mac OS X is
>>> not updated as frequently as pip. I'd recommend adding a way to
>>> install graph-tool using pip. Right now, I see the following error.
>>
>> Neither pip nor easy_install are supported. Huge portions of graph-tool
>> are implemented in C++ and thus require compilation. Although it is
>> possible to use python's setuptools to compile packages in C/C++ as well
>> (numpy and scipy do this), I find that autotools provides a much more
>> comfortable and reliable approach, which is more likely to work in
>> different environments. I feel that porting things to setuptools would
>> be quite a pain.
>
> For Mac, is it possible to make a dmg for installation? (I don't have
> any experience on making a dmg package). But this could help potential
> users who want avoid compiling the package themselves (the requirement
> on gcc 4.4 can be a deal breaker).
>

It should be possible to make binaries with macports:

    http://guide.macports.org/chunked/using.binaries.html

I'll investigate this possibility for future releases.

As for gcc 4.4, I don't see what is the big deal, since it corresponds
to the default apple compiler, AFAIK.

Cheers,
Tiago

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Tiago de Paula Peixoto <[email protected]>

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