On Nov 23, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Michael Barton wrote: > Thanks William. > > Your package makes this work OK. I had only been able to install PIL for > Python 2.7, but had compiled GRASS 7 with Python 2.6. This left the > cartographic composer only partly workable. This could be a problem for > others.
Actually, this is am oversight by me. While I install for python 2.6 AND 2.7 on Lion with my frameworks (osgeo.gdal, pysqlite), I forgot to do the same for non-framework python modules. Easily fixed. > These extra python packages not only need to be installed, but need to be > installed for whatever version of Python that GRASS is compiled with. This > is a similar issue to what we ran into with wxPython. I don't know how this > is handled in Windows, but could potentially be a problem there too. > > I'm not sure how to best handle this. > > Michael > ____________________ > C. Michael Barton > Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity > Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change > Arizona State University > > voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC) > fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) > www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 22, 2011, at 9:05 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote: > >> Well, I have Mac PIL and Numpy packages. I don't think Python modules are >> something you should be bundling in GRASS binaries, since users may already >> have them installed. >> >> If the GRASS installer (at least on OS X) could check for dependencies it >> wouldn't such a problem, since GRASS would simply not install and tell you >> what is missing. That's been a low priority on my list to do for a while - >> add some mechanism for extending the installer creation in the bindist >> target, to allow packagers to specify dependency checks (it's not something >> that's easy or practical to do automatically based on configured >> dependencies). >> >> On Nov 22, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Michael Barton wrote: >> >>> Since the Python Imaging Library (PIL) is needed to fully use the >>> cartographic composer, this needs to be a dependency of GRASS, just like >>> numpy. Since both of these packages do not come with the standard Python >>> distribution, it would be good if we could package/bundle them in binary >>> distributions. Otherwise, stuff will not work. This is needed for GRASS 6.4 >>> as well as GRASS 7. I'm not sure what is needed for this to happen, but it >>> will be helpful to users (and very frustrating to them if not there). >>> >>> Michael >> >> >> ----- >> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> >> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ >> >> "Mon Dieu! but they are all alike. Cheating, murdering, lying, fighting, >> and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not deign to possess >> - money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of weaklings. And yet withal >> bound down by silly customs that make them slaves to their unhappy lot while >> firm in the belief that they be the lords of creation enjoying the only real >> pleasures of existence.... >> >> - the wisdom of Tarzan >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev ----- William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
