A key thing to remember here is that each user has their particular set of "small things" that are all they need from scipy -- put us all together, and you have SciPy -- that's what it is for.
> As a user, I suggest that this becomes a reasonable goal > when up to date SciPy installers are maintained for all > target platforms. All it takes is someone to do it. Also, there was talk of "modularizing" scipy so that it would be easy to install only those bits you need -- in particular, the non-Fortran stuff should be trivial to build. > Macs are > increasingly popular among my students It can be a pain to build this kind of thing on OS-X, as Apple has not supported a Fortran compiler yet, but it can (and has) been done. IN fact, the Mac is a great target for pre-built binaries as there is only a small variety of hardware to support, and Apple supplies LAPACK/BLAS libs with the system. As for distributing it, the archive at: pythonmac.org/packages takes submissions from anyone -- just send a note to the pythonmac list -- that list is a great help in figuring out how to build stuff too. -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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
