On Dec 3, 2007 11:02 AM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: > > Jaap Spies wrote: > >> Ondrej Certik wrote: > >>>> Let us for instance install mayavi_2.0.1b1, traits, tvtk, etcetera: > >>>> > >>>> $ sudo easy_install -f dist -H dist enthought.ma* enthought.t* > >>>> > >>> Nice job Jaap. Thanks for sharing the instructions. > >>> > >> It's nothing, just follow the appropriate links :), > >> and you will find what you are looking for. > >> > >> Just curious, will this work in Debian? > >> > > > > Hi Jason, > > > > I was curious last week as well and installed the enthought suite on > > Ubuntu 7.10. It wasn't hard at all. If there is interest, I'll drum up > > the instructions I used. > > > > Installing from Debian, Ubuntu, and a few other distros is not hard, > because there are prebuild eggs, etc. But Fedora is not among the > supported platforms. Also using eggs is not compatible with local > builds, for instance spkgs. > > I would like to have an experimental enthought.spkg! > > > -Jason > > > > P.S. I've been playing with VPython over the last several weeks. I > > really like how the visual module matches the features and ease of use > > of VPython. > > > > VPython is nice. All visualization as a side effect! > > I could not install the beta under sage because of an > unicode issue. Standard Python is distributed with 4 bytes unicode, > boost uses UCS4, but SAGE uses the 2 bytes option. > > We have sometime to choose between UCS2 and UCS4! (William?)
Sage just uses the Python default, which is UCS2. There are advantages I think, for memory consumption (?!), but disadvantages as we see above. Note that if we change this then "sage -upgrade" will require a forced rebuild of every single Python package. That's not so bad. Michael, what do you think? -- Wiliam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
