Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-29 Thread Robin
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:09 AM, David Warde-Farley d...@cs.toronto.eduwrote: The Python.org sources for 2.6.x has a script in the Mac/ subdirectory (I think, or in the build tools) for building a 4-way universal binary (i386, x86_64, ppc and ppc64). You can rather easily build it (just run

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-23 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 21-Oct-09, at 11:01 AM, Ryan May wrote: ~/.local was added to *be the standard* for easily installing python packages in your user account. And it works perfectly on the other major OSes, no twiddling of paths anymore. I've had a lot of headaches with ~/.local on Ubuntu, actually.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-23 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 21-Oct-09, at 6:58 AM, Robin wrote: My only worry is with installer packages - I'm thinking mainly of wxpython. Is there a way I can get that package to install in $HOME/.local. (The installer only seems to let you choose a drive). Also - if I build for example vim against the system

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-23 Thread David Cournapeau
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:02 PM, David Warde-Farley d...@cs.toronto.edu wrote: Packaging is still more pain than it should be on *any* platform, I think, and I doubt we'll have it all sorted out until somewhere in the mid-to-upper 3.x's. :( I think numpy and scipy on py3k will happen before

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-23 Thread Ryan May
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:02 AM, David Warde-Farley d...@cs.toronto.edu wrote: On 21-Oct-09, at 11:01 AM, Ryan May wrote: ~/.local was added to *be the standard* for easily installing python packages in your user account.  And it works perfectly on the other major OSes, no twiddling of paths

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-23 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:46:47AM -0500, Ryan May wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:02 AM, David Warde-Farley d...@cs.toronto.edu wrote: On 21-Oct-09, at 11:01 AM, Ryan May wrote: ~/.local was added to *be the standard* for easily installing python packages in your user account.  And it

[Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-21 Thread Robin
Hi, I was wondering what the recommended way to run numpy/scipy on mac os x 10.6 is. I understood previously it was recommended to use python.org python and keep everything seperate from the system python, which worked well. But now I would like to have a 64 bit python and numpy, and there isn't

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-21 Thread David Cournapeau
Robin wrote: Hi, I was wondering what the recommended way to run numpy/scipy on mac os x 10.6 is. I understood previously it was recommended to use python.org python and keep everything seperate from the system python, which worked well. You can simply use the --user option to the install

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-21 Thread Robin
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM, David Cournapeau da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp wrote: Robin wrote: Hi, I was wondering what the recommended way to run numpy/scipy on mac os x 10.6 is. I understood previously it was recommended to use python.org python and keep everything seperate from the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-21 Thread David Cournapeau
Robin wrote: Thanks - that looks ideal. I take it $HOME/.local is searched first so numpy will be used fromt here in preference to the system numpy. Yes, unless framework-enabled python does something 'fishy' (I think framework vs convention python have different rules w.r.t. sys.path). As

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-21 Thread Robin
Thanks... On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM, David Cournapeau da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp wrote: Robin wrote: Thanks - that looks ideal. I take it $HOME/.local is searched first so numpy will be used fromt here in preference to the system numpy. Yes, unless framework-enabled python does

Re: [Numpy-discussion] recommended way to run numpy on snow leopard

2009-10-21 Thread Zachary Pincus
Wow. Once again, Apple makes using python unnecessarily difficult. Someone needs a whack with a clue bat. Well, some tools from the operating system use numpy and other python modules. And upgrading one of these modules might conceivably break that dependency, leading to breakage in the