Hi, On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > > To summarize where we are at with OS-X installer: > > The binary egg that Charlie built is supposed to work with Python 2.5, > either Apple or python.org version on OS-X 10.5, and pythonorg version > on OS-X 10.3.9 and 10.4.* > > However, for some odd reason none of us understand, under some > circumstances, easy-install tries to build from source anyway.
[snip] I haven't really been following this thread too closely, but I read through it and saw that no body made mention of the "superpack"? http://trichech.us/?p=5 For a long while now, I've been using python2.4 through macports and installing ipython/numpy/scipy/matplotlib from SVN, but I wanted to just try to use Leopard's Python (quickly ;-). Instead of installing everything from source, I took a stab at d/ling the superpack and it all worked out pretty well for me. The only thing I had to do was to install freetype2 from source (simple ./configure, make, sudo make install) and everything seems to be working. Once I had that in there, I could use matplotlib with the WXAgg backend and it required no additional tweaking. You can give that a go and see if it works. If the numpy/scipy versions fall sufficiently out of data w/o a re- release of the superpack, I reckon you can install those from SVN (and remove the installed eggs) and things should work out fine. -steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
