Re: [Rdkit-discuss] Building on Mac

2008-11-28 Thread Greg Landrum
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Noel O'Boyle wrote: >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > import cairo > >> >> Seems to work. > > But, but, but...where did cairo come from? Was it already there? If > true, then it's problem solved. seems to have bee

Re: [Rdkit-discuss] Building on Mac

2008-11-28 Thread Noel O'Boyle
2008/11/28 Greg Landrum : > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Noel O'Boyle wrote: >> than installs them. The Sytem Python comes with PIL, Tkinter, >> wxPython, Numpy and Matplotlib. And that's it. There doesn't seem to >> be a package manager for Macs. So if you want any other extensions >> you're

Re: [Rdkit-discuss] Building on Mac

2008-11-28 Thread Greg Landrum
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Noel O'Boyle wrote: > than installs them. The Sytem Python comes with PIL, Tkinter, > wxPython, Numpy and Matplotlib. And that's it. There doesn't seem to > be a package manager for Macs. So if you want any other extensions > you're out of luck. For what it's wor

Re: [Rdkit-discuss] Building on Mac

2008-11-27 Thread Noel O'Boyle
Actually it builds pycairo and its dependencies on the spot, rather than installs them. The Sytem Python comes with PIL, Tkinter, wxPython, Numpy and Matplotlib. And that's it. There doesn't seem to be a package manager for Macs. So if you want any other extensions you're out of luck. And fink unst

Re: [Rdkit-discuss] Building on Mac

2008-11-27 Thread Greg Landrum
Noel, I'm not enough of a Mac person (yet?) to know what the compelling case is for installing/using the fink python instead of the system version. Aside from being able to install instead of build pycairo, what's the argument for it? I'm pretty conservative when it comes to installing on unstabl

Re: [Rdkit-discuss] Building on Mac

2008-11-27 Thread Noel O'Boyle
I now realise there is a third option for me. I could install cairo with Fink, and then try to compile pycairo for the System Python using the Fink installed libraries...hmmm... 2008/11/27 Noel O'Boyle : > Hello Greg, > > To make life difficult, I've been trying to build RDKit on MacOSX 10.5 > but

[Rdkit-discuss] Building on Mac

2008-11-27 Thread Noel O'Boyle
Hello Greg, To make life difficult, I've been trying to build RDKit on MacOSX 10.5 but using the Fink-installed python2.5 and numpy (note: I'm using Fink unstable): I'm a newbie to MacOSX. Fink is one of two options (also tried MacPorts - didn't work well enough) for package-managed installation