On 21-Oct-09, at 6:58 AM, Robin wrote: > My only worry is with installer packages - I'm thinking mainly of > wxpython. Is there a way I can get that package to install in > $HOME/.local. (The installer only seems to let you choose a drive). > Also - if I build for example vim against the system python, will I be > able to see packages in $HOME/.local from the python interpreter > inside vim?
wxPython is going to be a problem with 64-bit Python. Namely, wxMac is based on Carbon, there is no 64-bit Carbon, and the wxCocoa port is not quite up to snuff. At any rate, any binary installer packages will almost certainly *not* work with the system python, at least if it runs in 64-bit mode by default. The Python.org sources for 2.6.x has a script in the Mac/ subdirectory (I think, or in the build tools) for building a 4-way universal binary (i386, x86_64, ppc and ppc64). You can rather easily build it (just run the script) and it will produce executables of the form python (or python2.6) suffixed with -32 or -64 to run in one mode or the other. So, python-32 (or python2.6-32) will get you 32 bit Python, which will work with wxPython using wxMac, or python-64, which will not (but will do everything in 64-bit mode). I've successfully gotten svn numpy to build 4-way using such a 4-way Python. David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
