John Hunter wrote: > I think the src egg approach for os x is hopeless because too many > people are having problems with architecture on png and zlib > dependencies, and we don't have a lot of control over this because > they are getting these dependencies from a variety of providers.
Maybe it's hopeless, but one solution is to try to standardize, in the MacPython community, on using William Kyngesburye's UnixImageIO and Freetype Frameworks for the dependencies: http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/doku.php?id=software:frameworks They are Universal, Binary, and packaged as nice frameworks and also with traditional unix-style layouts for building against. > I > think we need a binary installer, eg using bdist_mpkg, with the > freetype, png and zlib dependencies built in, as we have on windows. That's good route too, though it always feels a bit silly to have a different copy of libpng inside MPL, and PIL,and wxPython, and .... Why the heck Apple doesn't provide these really common libs is still beyond me! -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
