Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-04-02 Thread Christopher Barker
David Cournapeau wrote: > Well, yes, it could be a totally different, incompatible python that it > would still do as you said - distutils cannot be trusted at all to do > the right thing here, quite true -- though hopefully you now what is on your system, so it can only go so wrong. However I j

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-04-01 Thread David Cournapeau
Christopher Barker wrote: > > I'm not surprised it took that long -- that sounds short to me! > > Anyway, If there are new python builds that are 64-bit (quad?) you wont' > have to change much -- "only" make sure that the libs you are linking to > are 64 bit. I suppose you could try to get a quad

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-04-01 Thread Christopher Barker
Christopher Barker wrote: > Anyway, If there are new python builds that are 64-bit (quad?) you wont' > have to change much -- "only" make sure that the libs you are linking to > are 64 bit. I suppose you could try to get a quad-universal gfortran.a > now, Actually, it looks like the binary at:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-04-01 Thread Christopher Barker
David Cournapeau wrote: > Christopher Barker wrote: >> It does, but we don't need a binary installer for a python that doesn't >> have a binary installer. > > Yes, not now - but I would prefer avoiding to have to change the process > again when time comes. It may not look like it, but enabling a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-31 Thread David Cournapeau
Christopher Barker wrote: > It does, but we don't need a binary installer for a python that doesn't > have a binary installer. > Yes, not now - but I would prefer avoiding to have to change the process again when time comes. It may not look like it, but enabling a working process which works w

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-31 Thread Christopher Barker
David Cournapeau wrote: > Chris Barker wrote: >> Well, neither Apple nor python.org's builds are 64 bit anyway at this >> point. There is talk of quad (i386,and ppc_64 i86_64) builds the the >> future, though. >> > Yes, but that's something that has to should be supported sooner rather > than

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-30 Thread David Cournapeau
Chris Barker wrote: > > I see -- well that's good news. I've found the Universal library > requirements to be a pain sometimes, and it probably would be here if > Apple wasn't giving us lapack/blas. > Yes, definitely. I could see a lot of trouble if people had to build a universal ATLAS :) >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Barker
David Cournapeau wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Chris Barker wrote: >> I assume you meant NOT the easiest? ;-) > > Actually, no, I meant it :) It has gcc, which is the best supported > compiler by numpy and scipy, there is almost no problem with g77, and > the optimized blas/lapack is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-30 Thread David Cournapeau
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Chris Barker wrote: > David Cournapeau wrote: >> I don't really care, as long as there is only one. Maintaining binaries >> for every python out there is too time consuming. Given that mac os X >> is the easiest platform to build numpy/scipy on, > > I assume you me

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Barker
David Cournapeau wrote: > I don't really care, as long as there is only one. Maintaining binaries > for every python out there is too time consuming. Given that mac os X > is the easiest platform to build numpy/scipy on, I assume you meant NOT the easiest? ;-) > that's not something i am interest

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-30 Thread David Cournapeau
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Chris Barker wrote: > Well, this is the big question: what python(s) should be provide > binaries for -- I think if you're only going to do one, it should be the > python.org build, so that you can support 10.4, and 10.5 and everyone > can use it. I don't really

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Barker
David Cournapeau wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Robert Pyle wrote: >> This one installs, but only in /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/, >> that is, for Apple's system python. This happened when `which python` >> pointed to either EPD python or python.org's 2.5.4. > > Yes, what your

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-30 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Robert Pyle wrote: > Hi David, > > I decided to change the Subject line to be more apropos. > > On Mar 30, 2009, at 3:41 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > >> David Cournapeau wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Robert Pyle >>> wrote: >>> >>> I just insta

[Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.3.0 rc1 OS X Installer

2009-03-30 Thread Robert Pyle
Hi David, I decided to change the Subject line to be more apropos. On Mar 30, 2009, at 3:41 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Robert Pyle >> wrote: >> >> >>> I just installed 2.5.4 from python.org, and the OS X installer still >>> doesn'