On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw.edu> wrote:
> What I need is a python, numpy, and matplotlib that support 32-bit and
> (preferably) 64-bit for MacOS X 10.6 and later. I have been using
> python.org python and the standard binary installers until now.
>
well we (that is, Matthew) have scripts that build those, so no reason not
to keep doing it.
> Until Mavericks I was using 64-bit mode. Unfortunately 32-bit is
> required for older versions of Tcl/Tk to run under Mavericks
kind of ironic that the latest OS doesn't end up supporting 64 bit!
> I realize I'm in an unusual situation,
maybe -- but tkInter is part of the standard library, so we probably do
want to support it! If nothing else, various folks that teach Python use
the turtle module early on -- and one of the use cases for
easy-to-fine-and-install binaries is newbies...
> and I'm not the one building the
> binaries and trying to deal with the ATLAS headaches. If worst comes to
> worst we can stay at the current version of numpy and matplotlib (at
> least for now). Long term we should probably switch away from Tcl/TK,
> though that would be a huge undertaking, or hire somebody to fix the
> Tcl/Tk bug.
Is Tcl/Tk that unused that this isn't getting addressed? kind of Sad,
though I was never a big fan -- at least once I discovered Python...
-Chris
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