On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 09:54, Jack Jansen wrote:
I'm catching up with half a year of back postings on the numpy list, and the messages about automatically using vecLib on the macintosh sound very interesting.
I maintain the official Package Manager databases for MacPython (which allow users to install a handful of common packages with one mouseclick), and Numeric and numarray have been in there since day one. I'm revising all the packages again at the moment (I do that about once a year, or on request), and I had to manually fiddle Numeric 23.6 to actually build on the Mac. This is a bit of a bother, as I have to keep a separate source distribution in stead of just referring to the official one, but more important is the fact that neither Numeric nor numarray support vecLib out of the box.
So, a plea for help: I don't know what the usual frequency for Numeric and numarray distributions is, but it would be very helpful for me (and for anyone using Numeric/numarray on the Mac) if new distributions were available that contained the fixes mentioned in the november discussions...
numarray-1.2 is relatively near at hand, sometime in the next 2-3 weeks I hope. For numarray-1.2 on the Mac, I think all you will need to do to get a vecLib build is: python setup.py install --use_lapack Regards, Todd