Hi, I'd very much like your feedback on a utility I've written to make OSX installers from wheels.
For my own course, and for matplotlib, I wanted to make an double click OSX installer which would install a series of requirements into Python.org Python. As usual, I got a lot of useful thinking on this from Min Ragan-Kelly of IPython fame. I've written an package that automates building the installer: https://github.com/matthew-brett/wheels2dmg There are some examples in the README, but the basic idea is: wheels2dmg scipy-stack 1.0 scipy matplotlib ipython[notebook] \ pandas numexpr sympy --python-version 2.7.8 This uses pip to download wheels for the stated requirements, packages them up into a 'wheels' directory, creates an OSX ``.pkg`` installer that will install the wheels using pip, and puts this all into a ``.dmg`` disk image with a suitable README, and a link for downloading Python.org Python. The generated README covers installing into Macports and Homebrew. My hope is that this makes it easy for people who want to provide a whole stack to provide a ``.dmg`` installer that does the right thing in terms of updating dependencies. I'd love to get any feedback on whether this works for people, and missing features. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
