On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Paul Anton Letnes < [email protected]> wrote:
> Mabe I am wrong somehow, but in my experience the easiest install of scipy > is 'port install py26-scipy'. For new users, I do not see why one would > recommend to build manually from source? Macports can do it for you, > automagically... > > Well, by far the easiest method is to just grab a binary installer. The other choices you have are build from source, or try to use Macports/Fink/Homebrew/easy_install/pip/buildout-recipe/<your-favorite-solution-here>. Those all rely on source builds as well, they're just hiding the details. Which makes things way more confusing when something goes wrong. About Macports specifically, I haven't tried in a few years but certainly don't remember things always working out of the box. And AFAIK Homebrew is a replacement for Macports for many people because the latter was issues. Cheers, Ralf Paul > > 4. des.. 2010 15.04 "Ralf Gommers" <[email protected]>: > > > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Fabian Pedregosa < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec ... > > I would prefer to just document the gcc_select solution, since it solves > the problem at hand. > > > > > > > On the other hand, as installing on macports is not that trivial, I > > strongly feel that a sub... > > The most up-to-date instructions are at > http://www.scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Mac_OS_X, so those should be updated > as well. That said, if a "Macports" section is added there should be a > strong disclaimer that it is *not* the recommended way to install > numpy/scipy. A good portion of the build problems reported on these lists > are related to Fortran on OS X, and a specific gfortran build at > http://r.research.att.com/tools/ is recommended for a reason. If a user > really wants to use Macports some notes in the docs may help, but let's not > give the impression that it's a good/default option for a new user. > > Cheers, > Ralf > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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