Yes, I am running the latest (non-beta) Spyder, with the latest Anaconda (and its packages), and the latest XQuartz on OS X Mavericks. I have to manually run XQuartz before running Spyder. Spyder seems to work fine, except that it always crashes when it's closed. I did not use the .dmg installer (for the same reasons you chose not to). It looks like the reliance upon X11 is going to continue into Spyder version 3, now in beta ?! If so... alas.
On Thursday, December 12, 2013 11:55:05 PM UTC-5, Lewis Levin wrote: > > Spyder and python crash immediately when x11 is not installed and you > choose the preferences command. > > I am installing xquartz, but what a waste. 164Meg to get a lousy gui when > Spyder itself already uses a very good gui that must already be installed: > QT. > > Will either Anaconda (if that is the issue) or Spyder switch to building > the preferences "app" on QT? > > This is not a problem with the dmg installer of Spyder. But, as nice as > that is I don't want to use it. It is really nice and installs perfectly > but.... It becomes its own distinct python install and all of the > necessary libraries are duplicated. As a really clean simple thing that is > great but... ...all of the Python library that is supplied via the > application package is totally inaccessible outside of Spyder itself. That > sort of seems to violate how one expects to use Python. > > No worries. It was easy to use conda to get the latest version of Spyder > installed in the anaconda distro of Python. But, then we have the > preference issue. > > It would be nice to be rid of x11. Maybe an ask for 2.3? > > Thanks, > Lewis > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
