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<caat3jwfkzo7rericnowkwgqfh-7dmqobooz92wbf6ork8oa...@mail.gmail.com>,
C M <cmpyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Trying to help a Mac friend running OSX 10.7 (Lion) easily set up to test
> > > scripts I send him, and have some questions:
> > >
> > > 1) Can Matplotlib 1.1 run on the Python 2.7.2 version that comes with
> > > Lion?
> >
> > Yes. You can easily build it yoursef as long as you have XCode
> > installed:
> >
> > - Edit setupext.py so that the list of values for "darwin" is
> > ['/usr/local', '/usr', /usr/X11']
> > (and for a really vanilla build leave out /usr/local). (I have a pull
> > request for this to be part of the standard distro, but I don't know if
> > or when it will go in since not a big issue.)
> >
> > Then do the usual:
> > % python setup.py build
> > % sudo python setup.py install
>
> Where are you getting matplotlib 1.1 for Mac OSX 10.7 from to build it?
1.1.0 is the current release. I downloaded the unix tarball.
> > > 2) When is there expected to be an installer for Matplotlib 1.1 for OSX
> > > 10.7?
> >
> > There is one, but like all the matplotlib (and numpy and scipy) official
> > binaries it uses python.org's python, not Apple's.
> >
> > To go this route install python.org's Python 2.7.2 for 10.6-and-later
> > (which is 64-bit) and then install the official numpy and matpotlib
> > binaries.
>
> >From where? I didn't see it. I am talking about having a binary
> installer on the Matplotlib downloads page,,. the last one I see there
> is this, which is for OSX-10.6:
>
> matplotlib-1.1.0-py2.7-python.org-macosx10.6.dmg 2012-02-15
That is the one. 10.6 means "10.6 and later". It is build for
python.org's Mac binary installer for 10.6 and later, which works just
fine on Lion.
-- Russell
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