Re: [Numpy-discussion] 1.1.0 OSX Installer Fails Under 10.5.3?
I've been using bdist_mpkg to build the OSX Installer. I'd like to update the requirement documentation for the 1.1.1 release candidate to say "MacPython from python.org" instead of "System Python". bdist_mpkg specifies this, does anyone know how to override it?
Chris
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:48 PM, J. Stark j.stark@imperial.ac.uk wrote:
Chris,
many thanks. Could I suggest that this information be featured prominently in the Read Me in the Installer, and perhaps also at http://www.scipy.org/Download where this is given as the official binary distribution for MacOSX. You might want to change the error message too, since I think that some people will interpret "System Python" to mean the default Python provided by the standard system install. Since this is 2.5.1 on Leopard, the error message could be confusing.
In article 764e38540807172233m6bce652bp40478564de10e265@mail.gmail.com, "Christopher Burns" cburns@berkeley.edu wrote:
I've been using bdist_mpkg to build the OSX Installer. I'd like to update the requirement documentation for the 1.1.1 release candidate to say "MacPython from python.org" instead of "System Python". bdist_mpkg specifies this, does anyone know how to override it?
I suspect I am misunderstanding your question, but...
If you are asking how to make bdist_mkpg actually use MacPython, then surely you simply have to have MacPython installed for that to happen? That was certainly true for MacPython and bdist_mpkg on 10.4.x.
Or are you asking how to make the installer fail if the user's system is missing MacPython? That I don't know. I usually rely on the .mpkg's ReadMe and the user being intelligent enough to read it, but of course that is a bit risky.
If you are asking how to modify the ReadMe file then that is trivial -- just look through the .mpkg package and you'll find it right away. I often replace the default ReadMe with my own when creating .mpkg installer for others.
-- Russell
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