<div dir="ltr">When distributing Mac binaries of numpy, we've run into some confusion from users on the Python dependency. bdist_mpkg reports the MacPython (<a href="http://python.org">python.org</a>) 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?<br>
<br>Updating the entry in the FRIENDLY_PREFIX is all that is needed.<br><br>cburns@bdist_mpkg 12:31:38 $ grin -A 8 "FRIENDLY_PREFIX"<br>./plists.py:<br> 70 : FRIENDLY_PREFIX = {<br> 71 + os.path.expanduser(u'~/Library/Frameworks') : u'User',<br>
72 + u'/System/Library/Frameworks' : u'Apple',<br> 73 + u'/Library/Frameworks' : u'<a href="http://python.org">python.org</a> Framework Build',<br> 74 + u'/opt/local' : u'DarwinPorts',<br>
75 + u'/usr/local' : u'Unix',<br> 76 + u'/sw' : u'Fink',<br> 77 + }<br><br>On the numpy-list, Christopher Barker had proposed changing it to this:<br><br><font size="-1"> u'/Library/Frameworks' : u'<a href="http://python.org/" target="_blank">python.org</a> Framework Build',</font><br>
<br><br>Thanks!<br>Chris<br><br>-- <br>Christopher Burns<br>Computational Infrastructure for Research Labs<br>10 Giannini Hall, UC Berkeley<br>phone: 510.643.4014<br><a href="http://cirl.berkeley.edu/">http://cirl.berkeley.edu/</a>
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