On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Russell E. Owen <rowen@uw.edu> wrote:
In article
<CABL7CQg5vV_Vnp0hbdX+ys6Gt0nPWqehTH3mWb6j65OW9+13aA@mail.gmail.com>,
 Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:45 AM, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Charles R Harris
> > <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Numpy 1.8 is about ready for an rc1, which brings up the question of
> > which
> > > binary builds so put up on sourceforge. For Windows maybe
> > >...
> > > OS X 10.6  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler,
> > linked
> > > with Accelerate.
> > > OS X 10.7  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler,
> > linked
> > > with Accelerate.
> > > OS X 10.8  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler,
> > linked
> > > with Accelerate.
> > >
> > > That seems like a lot. It is fairly easy to compile from source on the
> > mac
> > > these days, are all those binary packages really needed?
> >
>
> That's not exactly the right list - the same installers built on 10.6 also
> work on 10.7 and 10.8.

I agree. I'll chime in and give my recommendations, though Ralf is the
expert:

David is our resident build/distribute guru actually.
 
For MacOS X I suggest building binary installers for python.org's python
2.7, 3.2 and 3.3 (the 64-bit versions). The result will run on 10.6 and
later. It is safest to build these on MacOS X 10.6; it may work to build
on a later MacOS X, but it sure doesn't for some packages.

Agreed. I think we discussed before not providing OS X 10.5 and python 2.6 binaries, that would make sense imho.
 

You will have to update to the latest bdist_mpkg to build Mac binary
installers for python 3. I've not tried it yet.

I just tried, it's now possible to build 3.x binaries with a simple ``paver dmg -p 3.3``.
 

I don't think users expect a binary installer for Apple's python; I
don't recall ever seeing these for numpy, scipy, matplotlib.... But if
you do want to supply one,

We don't I think. Just python.org, keeps it simple.

Cheers,
Ralf
 
Apple provides Python 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 but no
3.x (at least in MacOS X 10.8).

-- Russell

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