In article <51fbb996.5030...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> Ludwig, this is one of the most entertaining e-mails I've read in a > while, and I think your arguments make a lot of sense. > > Given infinite developer resources, do you think there's any logic to > providing *both* system Python and python.org based binaries? How much > additional work would that be? > > I think the big problems to solve now is > > (a) get to the bottom of why the new installer is breaking existing > installations of dateutil and pytz. Russell: even though they are not > currently working, could you provide what you have so that others can > have a look? I put the installer here (and announced it earlier -- I thought in this thread): <http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/python/> I do not consider it safe because: - It may trash existing installations of dateutil and pytz (especially those installed by the matplotlib 1.2.1 binary installer) - It does not include pytz, dateutil and six (unlike the 1.2.1 binary installer), so it's a real pain to use - It is missing its unit tests and so is poorly tested - It also appears that pylab is broken (something I only recently discovered) Unless somebody figures out how to include the dependencies, I think a Mac binary installer is a nonstarter. -- Russell P.S. the Mac binary installer for numpy used to be easy to find. I was quite dismayed to find how buried it had become when I went looking for it a week or two ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
