Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: >> I seem to recall several Python apps moving from numpy to numarray in >> the past, so it should be doable. > > I strongly suspect you are backwards.  Numarray is the deprecated > predecessor to numpy. >

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 09/29/2009 01:52 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >>> I admit I'm not following sugar and numpy discussions too closely so I >>> might have missed it but I don't remember this.  I d

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 09/29/2009 12:51 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> the sugar-pippy rpm in Fedora depends on pygame, which is used by some >>> of the examples. >>> >>> So far, so goo

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:10:39PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 12:36 +, Aleksey Lim escribió: > > pygame and numpy are parts of Sugar Platform[1], at least for 0.84, > > so, the right question is should these pakcages be a part of SP-0.86 > > I guess +1 for both, s

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 16:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz escribió: >> Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> > 1) are there lighter-weight alternatives for the most popular uses of >> > numpy? >> >> No.  It has no competition, and is used by virtual

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > I seem to recall several Python apps moving from numpy to numarray in > the past, so it should be doable. I strongly suspect you are backwards. Numarray is the deprecated predecessor to numpy. http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray/numarray.html

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 16:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz escribió: > Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > 1) are there lighter-weight alternatives for the most popular uses of > > numpy? > > No. It has no competition, and is used by virtually every program that > uses python and performs array manipulat

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 12:36 +, Aleksey Lim escribió: > I suspect the #1 usecase for numpy is to compensate for lack of good > array support in Python. > > > Questions: > > 1) are there lighter-weight alternatives for the most popul

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Questions: > > 1) are there lighter-weight alternatives for the most popular uses of > numpy? No. It has no competition, and is used by virtually every program that uses python and performs array manipulation. I think it would probably be part of the python standard li

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
We use numpy in Measure for array support and the fft library. We used it in Turtle Art with Sensors for similar reasons. -walter On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 12:36 +, Aleksey Li

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 12:36 +, Aleksey Lim escribió: >> pygame and numpy are parts of Sugar Platform[1], at least for 0.84, >> so, the right question is should these pakcages be a part of SP-0.86 >> I guess +1 for both, since we hav

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 12:36 +, Aleksey Lim escribió: > pygame and numpy are parts of Sugar Platform[1], at least for 0.84, > so, the right question is should these pakcages be a part of SP-0.86 > I guess +1 for both, since we have honey activities that are depend on > these packages. In Sug

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:36:19PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:33:17PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > Hello, > > > > the sugar-pippy rpm in Fedora depends on pygame, which is used by some > > of the examples. > > > > So far, so good, but pygame in turn depends on nu

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:33:17PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hello, > > the sugar-pippy rpm in Fedora depends on pygame, which is used by some > of the examples. > > So far, so good, but pygame in turn depends on numpy, a 7.7MB package > which a lot of huge dependencies such as atlas (11MB

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hello, > > the sugar-pippy rpm in Fedora depends on pygame, which is used by some > of the examples. > > So far, so good, but pygame in turn depends on numpy, a 7.7MB package > which a lot of huge dependencies such as atlas (11MB), libgfor

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-28 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bernie, On 29 Sep 2009, at 02:33, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hello, > > the sugar-pippy rpm in Fedora depends on pygame, which is used by some > of the examples. > > So far, so good, but pygame in turn depends on numpy, a 7.7MB package > which a lot of huge dependencies such as atlas (11MB), li

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-28 Thread Wade Brainerd
I wouldn't mind seeing a custom PyGame for Sugar (let's call it sugargame). Ryan Gordon made a GTK backend for SDL which would allow the PyGame display to coexist with GTK widgets[1]. Also, Nirav Patel has written a sweet PyGame camera module which supports object tracking etc. There's probably a

[Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

2009-09-28 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Hello, the sugar-pippy rpm in Fedora depends on pygame, which is used by some of the examples. So far, so good, but pygame in turn depends on numpy, a 7.7MB package which a lot of huge dependencies such as atlas (11MB), libgfortran (1MB), blas (700KB) and python-nose (1MB). The rest of Sugar is