Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg Python version prefix

2008-07-25 Thread Christopher Burns
Yes, agreed. We build the numpy installer against the python.org version of python installed in /Library... The numpy developers have agreed to not touch the Apply Python. Users are required to install python from python.org. But this emphasizes my point, bdist_mpkg specifically refers to the p

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg Python version prefix

2008-07-25 Thread Christopher Barker
Larry Meyn wrote: FYI: The Apple provided python has an older version of numpy which is difficult (and probably unwise) to update. There are ways to work around that, but yes, that's one reason that we're distributing binaries for the python.org build. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D.

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg Python version prefix

2008-07-25 Thread Larry Meyn
FYI: The Apple provided python has an older version of numpy which is difficult (and probably unwise) to update. So it really only makes sense to install new versions of numpy for user installed copies of python. --Larry On 7/25/08 12:33 PM, "Christopher Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wh

[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg Python version prefix

2008-07-25 Thread Christopher Burns
When distributing Mac binaries of numpy, we've run into some confusion from users on the Python dependency. bdist_mpkg reports the MacPython ( python.org) dependency as the "System Python". This terminology is confusing as users see the "Apple Python" in the /System folder and believe they meet t