On 7/19/2013 3:04 PM, James Thiele wrote:
You are totally spot on in your description of how hard it can be to
install stuff. Years ago the first time I tried to install some Python
2.x version from source on OS X I ran into the problem that the
filesystem is case insensitive. I've tried to install PIL at least 3
times and never got the dependecies right.
This is a recognized problem within the Python community. A trainer in
San Francisco stated it rather well recently:
http://simeonfranklin.com/poster.pdf
Here's one guy working on it, although it comes back to that
Frankenstein monster problem:
http://docs.python-guide.org
If you are having problems with PIL, try Pillow:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow
Read the fine print for the dependencies you need pre-installed that pip
does not manage for you (on OSX, brew is recommended):
libjpeg
zlib
libtiff
libfreetype
littlecms
libwebp
If using brew, read the fine print about editing setup.py and/or
setup.cfg to indicate where you are having brew put binaries.
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Sincerely,
Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
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