Hi, >From my perspective (very limited skills&resources for understanding python details, backends, compiling sources and such scary things), I would like to add to the archives my success story using pythonmac.org/packages.
Context: Mac Pro (intel) and several G5s (will try my G4 powerbook soon) python 2.4, numpy, matplotlib (basic plotting with TkAgg), scipy (filtering)[, rpy (interface to R)] Installing python2.4, numpy, and matplotlib from pythonmac packages was a pleasure. Thank you! I found that the current scipy package is outdated (error message something like: RuntimeError: module compiled against version XXXXXX of C-API but this version of numpy is YYYYYY ) but, fortunately, it was quite easy to compile scipy from sources after I had installed the other binary packages. I started the process from scratch on clean systems (reinstalled tiger on old systems). This is what I did: -installed the latest XCode tools+SDK -installed pythonmac.org/packages (not scipy) -installed fortran from http://www.macresearch.org/files/gfortran/gfortranCompleteInstaller.mpkg.zip (I added a link to /usr/bin/gfortran pointing to /usr/local/bin/gfortran ) -added ~/.pydistutils.cfg (as explained in pythonmac.org/wiki/FAQ) -downloaded scipy sources (www.scipy.org, 0.5.2) and compiled&installed scipy using sudo /usr/local/bin/python setup.py install (i.e., using python 2.4 installed from pythonmac packages) This works ok for the things I want to do. Scipy.test(10) (Ran 1610 tests in 40.736s) complains about several things (e.g., importing umfpack, clapack, cblas, complex numbers) but this does not seem to matter. I don't know about wxPython. I would be more than happy to contribute to pythonmac packages. But I would have to solve these issues: (1) Is my scipy build (Intel, G5) ok for general distribution? I have no idea. (2) How to make pythonmac packages. This seems like a faq but seems that finding relevant information requires some time&effort as there seems to be several different packaging approaches etc. It would be great to have step-by-step instructions to get started. Cheers, Teemu Rinne Dept Psychology Univ Helsinki, Finland _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig