> PPS: Belinda, now that you've done all this work, I do hope you can > go the extra mile and figure out how to make a binary package of it > all for others!
I certainly would like to to do this, but its gonna have to wait until after TheCurrentCrisis alleviates. Hopefully before Feb (in the worst case, mid-June), as I too am annoyed at how hard this seemed to be for the Mac. I also find it disconcerting that Vincent had different troubles than I w/the same source instructions (did they ever get resolved)? As had Erin. At the same time, until about May I'll have access to both Intel and PPC Macs, so I have an ideal env. on which to test. I have only a vague idea how to make dmgs (have perused the incomprehensible hdutils man page), though, so may need some help. At the same time, I'm not qualified to fix the Vincent/Erin problems and have no idea how to go about making "universals" that work for everyone. In fact, these current threads lead me to wonder if it can actually be done (the sad alternative is this: anyone w/a Mac that wants to use the matscinum suite [defined below], unless you have piles of time to waste, stick w/matlab provided you can afford it). W/all this talk about numpy integrating w/python (via a PEP), it seems the best customers for such a move would be a unified matscinum community. Right now that community (at least on the Mac) is accessible to the uber-gang only (of which I barely pass the bar, but since I've gotten SOMETHING working, w/much online help, I feel I've earned the right to include myself). I should mention a friend of mine who knows a lot more about sys stuff than I do had a heck of a time getting all this running on Linux---the entire package: matplotlib, numpy, scipy---lets call it the matscinum suite. In fact, it really seems this integration/ installation issue should be addressed across these 3 respective mailing lists, for if one doesn't work, the others become unusable for on non-trivial number of people (Perhaps there should be a list that is a combo of these three?) FWIW, this is just hot off the macpython sig list: --------- > Is it that hard to make a binary to put up (OK, two - one for PPC, one > for Intel), once you've gotten it all built? At least a few people > have > gotten it going recently. Could someone please make them available? > How about posting them on your own Web site then? If you don't have one, the price of commodity Web hosting is virtually zero, and there are plenty of free open source project hosting services around, some of them even good. It's been repeatedly stated on this mailing list that the currently pythonmac.org maintainer doesn't have time, and would be happy to relinquish control to someone who did. But nobody's volunteered. It is really rather tiresome to read about people asking for "someone" to do something when everyone's doing this work for free. --------- I agree with the sentiments but also recognize that the documentation at scipy (where most of this stuff is loaded) is inaccurate, e.g. the superpak doesn't work. Well, that's it for now. I'll try your wx rec's as soon as I find the time (likely next week). Gotta run and thanks for all the help, --b ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
