On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > 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 > > I did a Macports install of numpy/scipy/matplotlib on my wife's macbook a few months ago just because I was curious. Besides the fact that it took forever (it had trouble obtaining the various compilers from the servers, and it did a full-blown ATLAS tuning and compiling...) it did eventually install and work. YMMV, Ben Root
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