On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
The binaries will still be built against python.org Python, so there shouldn't be an issue here. Same for building from source.
My point was that it's nice to be able to have it build with an out of teh box wetup.py with accelerated LAPACK and all... If whoever is building binaries wants to get fancy, great.
Yeah, I still have an OS X 10.6 machine and Accelerate works great there. But they screwed it up pretty bad in 10.7, and then made it worse for 10.8. Not so cool anymore....
oh well, not on 10.8 yet myself -- if it's broken, it's broken :-(
I think we have to indeed keep it easy to build from source. Maybe providing a script to automatically fetch all dependencies and then build (like MPL does) would be a good way to go.
Maybe, but stand alone scripts like that get pretty fragile ( I know, I have a few of them myself...) I really want to have a better system in place to build binaries for the mac -- ideally a system that uses the same infrastructure to build a variety of Mac packages, rather than each package having it's own build scripts that need to be maintained and probably overlap with each other. I"m looking at gattai as a system to build on. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gattai/) There is also the issue of third-party dependencies (libpng, libfreetype, blas, etc, etc) I kind of like how Anaconda appears to be doing it. They have packages that have the shared libs in them, and then other packages can depend on those. Anyway, lots to do! -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov