Re: [Matplotlib-users] All-in-one distribution of python/numpy/scipy/mpl for windows

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Kern
Christopher Barker wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >> Mark Bakker wrote: >>> I think it would be very useful to have one installer that gets a >>> reasonable distrubtion installed (like the old Enthought installer). >>> Isn't something like that in the works for the Mac? >> Not anymore it isn't. We are

Re: [Matplotlib-users] All-in-one distribution of python/numpy/scipy/mpl for windows

2007-05-14 Thread Christopher Barker
Robert Kern wrote: > Mark Bakker wrote: >> I think it would be very useful to have one installer that gets a >> reasonable distrubtion installed (like the old Enthought installer). >> Isn't something like that in the works for the Mac? > > Not anymore it isn't. We are in the process of building eg

Re: [Matplotlib-users] All-in-one distribution of python/numpy/scipy/mpl for windows

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Kern
Mark Bakker wrote: > I think it would be very useful to have one installer that gets a > reasonable distrubtion installed (like the old Enthought installer). > Isn't something like that in the works for the Mac? Not anymore it isn't. We are in the process of building eggs for the Mac, though. --

Re: [Matplotlib-users] All-in-one distribution of python/numpy/scipy/mpl for windows

2007-05-14 Thread Bill Baxter
It seems like it would be a relatively easy thing for a Novice mode to be added to the Enstaller. The novice mode would just show you three happy buttons: install, upgrade, and uninstall. Under the hood it would be picking some particular set of packages for you. In fact even for experts it wou

[Matplotlib-users] All-in-one distribution of python/numpy/scipy/mpl for windows

2007-05-14 Thread Mark Bakker
Thanks for the pointer to the new egg installer of Enthought. Nice app, which I will use. But this is, IMHO, not what we need to move the python/numpy/scipy/mpl combo into the more mainstream use. Many potential users won't know what to do with the long list of packages that they have never heard