On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Christopher Barker wrote:
Travis Oliphant wrote:
It is the combination of SciPy+NumPy+Matplotlib+IPython (+ perhaps a good IDE) that can succeed at being a MATLAB/IDL replacement for a lot of people.
What is also needed is a good "package" of it all --- like the Enthon distribution. This requires quite a bit of thankless work.
I know Robert put some serious effort into "MacEnthon" a while back, but is no longer maintaining that, which doesn't surprise me a bit -- that looked like a LOT of work.
However, MacEnthon was much bigger than that just the packages Travis listed above, and I think Travis has that right -- those are the key ones to do. Let's "just do it!" -- first we need to solve the Fortran+Universal binary problems though -- that seems to be the technical sticking point on OS-X
Let me add a comment on the Fortran problem (which I assume to be the (lack of) Fortran compiler problem, right?). I have been working on f2py rewrite to support wrapping Fortran 90 types among other F90 constructs and as a result we have almost a complete Fortran parser in Python. It is relatively easy to use this parser to automatically convert Fortran 77 codes that we have in scipy to C codes whenever no Fortran compiler is available. Due to lack of funding this work has been freezed for now but I'd say that there is a hope to resolve the Fortran compiler issues for any platform in future. Pearu