Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-11 Thread Christopher Barker
belinda thom wrote: reports no differences. So, I went back and retried the plotting w/wx as a backend and discovered that wx FAILS with PYTHONW and PYTHON (appended). That's what I expected. If you saw how many notes I've collected on the different installs I've tried you'd laugh (except

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-11 Thread Robert Kern
Christopher Barker wrote: The MPL build system uses a nifty utility that comes with wx called wx-config to find the wx libs. However, Apple delivered an old version of wxPython with it's Python2.3. By default, the MPL build find the old wx-config, and you end up building the wxAgg back-end

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-11 Thread belinda thom
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-10 Thread belinda thom
I am posting this message to both numpy and matplotlib mailing lists because the thread relates to both. First, Robert Kern kindly provided step-by-step instructions for Macs (PPCs and Intels) regarding how to install FROM SOURCE the packages needed to allow Python to become a viable

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Kern
belinda thom wrote: I am posting this message to both numpy and matplotlib mailing lists because the thread relates to both. Actually, it's really only relevant to matplotlib. However, after installing wx and matplotlib, various problems result: 1) warnings about fonts 2) wx fails to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Kern
John Hunter wrote: Robert == Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Personally, I think the warnings are a bit overzealous and Robert should be silenced. It's not as if the user is explicitly Robert telling the font manager to load those specific Robert fonts. They

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Kern
belinda thom wrote: Robert, Try running with pythonw. Do you know how to fix this in IDLE (it must be using python as opposed to pythonw somehow). I'm afraid that I don't know enough about IDLE to help you. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-10 Thread Christopher Barker
Robert Kern wrote: Try running with pythonw. That's probably not it -- as of MacPython 2.4, pythonw ands python are the same. belinda thom wrote: And running w/pythonw does what it should :-). OK, now I'm confused: $ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin/python2.4

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Kern
belinda thom wrote: I went back and retried the plotting w/wx as a backend and discovered that wx FAILS with PYTHONW and PYTHON (appended). Okay, what version of wxPython did you install? What version of wxPython is actually imported (check wx.__version__)? (And we can leave off

Re: [Matplotlib-users] installing numpy, matplotlib, scipy from source on a Mac

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Kern
belinda thom wrote: Hi, On Jan 10, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Robert Kern wrote: belinda thom wrote: I went back and retried the plotting w/wx as a backend and discovered that wx FAILS with PYTHONW and PYTHON (appended). Okay, what version of wxPython did you install? What version of wxPython