Typing is painfully slow in Spyder with Mavericks. There are bug reports on this and the fix appears to be getting a new QT runtime from home-brew.
But, this makes the stack of dependencies way too steep. I am trying to do a clean Mac install without macports or homebrew. I am also not using the spider dmg package, although I could go back to it, because I want to minimize redundant installation (the package includes its own python, qt, and every other dependency). I realize I can get the spyder package to use the "real" python install on the path. But, I would like everything to be the same version--this seems like a key requirement of a "clean" install. It appears that QT 5.1 or 5.2 has solved this problem. But, there is no pyside for QT 5.x. I could just go to PYQT, no biggee. But, the latest pyqt for Mac only supports an older 5.1. So, the dependency stack kills us all on Mac, which is supposed to be the "better" environment compared to Windows. But, Python on windows has none of these breaking issues (see also the silly tcl issue that requires tcl 8.5.15.1, but not 8.16.1 because the python won't bind to the latter...). What we need is a fixed QT 4.8; or pyside needs to catch up to the latest QT runtimes. Probably unreasonable to back port the fix to QT 4.8. More reasonable to expect pyside to catchup. Is there any hope of this? (Please don't say it's open source--just pitch in!) I can't become an instantaneos QT/Pyside maintainer. These are big complex code bases and the core team of developers probably needs to take this on. Or, the easiest thing could be just concede and use the spider.dmg package. That will get me going the fastest, but it WON'T solve the mess that is Python on the mac. Probably, a group that cares about python on the mac should get a bit of support from Apple and offer to maintain clean consistent latest stable version distros of the most crucial components (the binary components, mostly--python source is much less of a problem obviously). Should this be under the aegis of the Python Software Foundation? 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.
