On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Friedrich Romstedt <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/10/9 Vincent Davis <[email protected]>: >> Did you get any responses on this? I can install 10.5 and help out >> with some testing. I have a macbookpro that does not turn of (Hardware >> issue) but it is good for testing. I could setup remote access on this >> if of interest to you. > > I can also help with the installer - I have some (some) experience > with building Mac OS X installers using the PackageMaker provided by > Apple. Just lacking a 10.5. But since I need some anyway (for > controlling a 10.5 server), Vincent, if you don't need your 10.5 > anymore, can we transfer the license in some way from you to me? I'm > serious, one cannot buy 10.5 from Apple anymore, and I need a legal > license. I have 10.6 and a VMware Fusion v3.
Let me see what I can do about getting you a license. Can you install regular osx (not server) as a vm machine ? I have 10.5 server running on vm. Vincent > > When anyone can inform me how the installation scheme for numpy > binaries is I can then provide the installers, I believe. I strongly > support 10.5 support, I believe we should support at least the next to > last version. > > For my own installer for upy, I followed the route: Unpacking the > package into some /private/var/tmp directory, and running setup.py > install there (since we are root when installing). upy is pure > Python, no compilation. I see so far three routes for numpy: a) just > installing the precompiled binaries using a setup.py file, b) > compiling in the background for the user (shouldn't be a problem on > Mac OS X, and would give us opportunity to include support for > complementary packages in a "binary installer". Tough it wouldn't be > really binary anymore.) c) Hardcoding the /Frameworks/ directory and > simply copying. > > What do we like best? > > Friedrich > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Thanks Vincent Davis 720-301-3003 _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
