[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg Python version prefix

[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" <cburns at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> 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
> <http://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 the required version.  Could this be changed to something more
> descriptive?
> 
> Updating the entry in the FRIENDLY_PREFIX is all that is needed.
> 
> cburns at bdist_mpkg 12:31:38 $ grin -A 8 "FRIENDLY_PREFIX"
> ./plists.py:
>    70 : FRIENDLY_PREFIX = {
>    71 +     os.path.expanduser(u'~/Library/Frameworks') : u'User',
>    72 +     u'/System/Library/Frameworks' : u'Apple',
>    73 +     u'/Library/Frameworks' : u'python.org <http://python.org>
> Framework Build',
>    74 +     u'/opt/local' : u'DarwinPorts',
>    75 +     u'/usr/local' : u'Unix',
>    76 +     u'/sw' : u'Fink',
>    77 + }
> 
> On the numpy-list, Christopher Barker had proposed changing it to this:
> 
>     u'/Library/Frameworks' : u'python.org <http://python.org/>  Framework
> Build',
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> Chris

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