On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal > <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Which exact Python do we need to use on Mac? Do we need to use the >>>> binary installer from python.org? >>> >>> Yes, the one from python.org. >>> >>>> Or can I install it from source? >> >> you could install from source using the same method that the >> python.org binaries are built -- there is a script with the source to >> do that, though I'm not sure what the point of that would be. >> >>> The 10.3 installers for 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 should be compiled on OS X 10.5. >> >> It would be great to continue support for that, though I wonder how >> many people still need it -- I don't think Apple supports 10.5 >> anymore, for instance. >> >>> The 10.7 --> 10.6 support hasn't been checked, but I wouldn't trust it. I >>> have a 10.6 machine, so I can compile those binaries if needed. >> >> That would be better, but it would also be nice to check how building >> on 10.7 works. >> >>> Avoid using system Python for anything. The first thing to do on any new OS >>> X system is install Python some other way, preferably from python.org. >> >> +1 >> >>> Last note: bdist_mpkg is unmaintained and doesn't support Python 3.x. Most >>> recent version is at: https://github.com/matthew-brett/bdist_mpkg, for >>> previous versions numpy releases I've used that at commit e81a58a471 >> >> There has been recent discussion on the pythonmac list about this -- >> some waffling about how important it is -- though I think it would be >> good to keep it up to date. > > I updated my fork of bdist_mpkg with Python 3k support. It doesn't > have any tests that I could see, but I've run it on python 2.6 and 3.2 > and 3.3 on one of my packages as a first pass. > >>> If we want 3.x binaries, then we should fix that or (preferably) build >>> binaries with Bento. Bento has grown support for mpkg's; I'm not sure how >>> robust that is. >> >> So maybe bento is a better route than bdist_mpkg -- this is worth >> discussion on teh pythonmac list. > > David - can you give a status update on that?
It is more a starting point than anything else, and barely tested. I would advise against using it ATM. thanks, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
