[Numpy-discussion] help from OS X 10.5 users wanted

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net>wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Ralf Gommers
> <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Friedrich,
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Friedrich Romstedt
> > <friedrichromstedt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 2010/10/9 Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net>:
> >> > Did you get any responses on this? I can install 10.5 and help out
> >> > with some testing. I have a macbookpro that does not turn of (Hardware
> >> > issue) but it is good for testing. I could setup remote access on this
> >> > if of interest to you.
> >>
> >> I can also help with the installer
> >
> > That would be very helpful, thanks. Please keep me up to date on your
> > progress with the 10.5 license, and once you are set up we can coordinate
> > building the binaries.
> >
> >>
> >> - I have some (some) experience
> >> with building Mac OS X installers using the PackageMaker provided by
> >> Apple.  Just lacking a 10.5.  But since I need some anyway (for
> >> controlling a 10.5 server), Vincent, if you don't need your 10.5
> >> anymore, can we transfer the license in some way from you to me?  I'm
> >> serious, one cannot buy 10.5 from Apple anymore, and I need a legal
> >> license.  I have 10.6 and a VMware Fusion v3.
> >>
> >> When anyone can inform me how the installation scheme for numpy
> >> binaries is I can then provide the installers, I believe.
> >
> > The toolchain you need is documented at
> > http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/MakingReleases. If you have all the
> > dependencies it's simply a matter of
> >   $ paver dmg -p 2.5   (or 2.6/7)
> > and a dmg installer is built.
>
> Is there any reason 10.5 server addition would not work for building
> release ?
>
Friedrich, you can't just install 10.5 (non server) on vmware. I just
> tried, It responds This is not a server addition. There are hacks
> but...
>
> I'll try to do a few testes this week., Where does
> "numpy-macosx-installer "
> http://github.com/cournape/numpy-macosx-installer fit in to running
> this command. "paver dmg -p 2.5" or does it?


This now lives under tools/numpy-macosx-installer in the git repo, so that
is not an external dependency anymore.


> I have installed from
> source many times but never built a dmg.
> Is there any interest in a current Dev snapshot dmg?
>

Probably not. The master branch is not binary compatible with scipy. But
1.5.1rc1 is planned for this coming Sunday, so that would be useful to have
a 10.5 binary of.

And how about a numpy scipy combo dmg?
>

Not sure if that's a very good way to spend your time, what's wrong with
separate installers? The release cycles are not synchronized, so this would
just be extra work.

>
> A little bit of a separate issue, does the build bot  or so,ething/one
> other than developers run numpy.test() to monitor test that may fail
> on different systems, as numpy scipy, python get updated.


It does, just go to Waterfall display, then click one of the "stdio" links
to see test results.

Cheers,
Ralf



> It seems
> like a bot could build everything from source weekly and commit a test
> log via git/github  to monitor and record the condition and changes in
> tests. Maybe there is no point to this, just sound like a neat way to
> track test results.
>
>
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