On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Tiago de Paula Peixoto <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

It depends. For my machine, it is not true.

-- 
Regards,
Peng
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