On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Pauli Virtanen <[email protected]> wrote: > 16.09.2013 16:31, William Ray Wing kirjoitti: > [clip] >> If you will forgive an observation from a Mac user and (amateur) developer. >> I have twice tried to build Numpy from source and both times failed. >> The problem was that I couldn't find a single comprehensive set of >> directions that started from a virgin system (nothing but >> Apple's python and Xcode) and proceed to working copies of >> Numpy (and of course Matplotlib). > > The problem with OSX is that as a software development platform with > open source tools, it is simply immature. You have homebrew, macports, > fink, python.org binaries, Apple's own Python installation, proprietary > BLAS/LAPACK with its own quirks, unified multiarch binaries, and whatnot > in the mix. This makes everything more complicated to support, > especially as the situation evolves with time and "recipes" that once > worked stop working. > > -- > Pauli Virtanen >
I think I could make a good case that maintaining a recipe is a lot less work than maintaining a binary distribution. Doing the second implicitly requires doing the first anyway. Thanks, Bill _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
