[Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.5.1 - Mac - with Activestate Python 3

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Sebastian Haase <seb.haase at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Chris Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
> > On 1/12/2011 12:57 PM, David Cortesi wrote:
> >> I have installed ActiveState's Python 3 packages on Mac OS X 10.6.6.
> >
> >> When I run the Mac OS installer it shows all disks as ineligible and
> >> the error message, "numpy 1.5.1 can't be installed on this disk. numpy
> >> requires System Python 2.6 to install."
> >
> > Sorry, that is is a bad error message. What I'm pretty sure it means to
> > say is:
> >
> > "numpy requires the Python 2.6 binary from python.org "
> >
> > I looked at this error message ages ago, and It's less trivial to fix
> > that you'd think -- but I thought it had been fixed.
>

That message comes from bdist_mpkg. I fixed it on my machine, and a fix was
also committed to the svn repo. However, I think there was no new bdist_mpkg
release on pypi (I did get a "why don't you just use eggs instead?") and the
1.5.1 binaries were not made on my machine. So the problem returned.


> >
> >> What can I do to persuade numpy to install? Must I build it from source
> >> to get it to use Python 3?
>
>
Yes, there is no binary for Python 3 at the moment. But unless you have a
specific need/desire to use 3.1/3.2 I'd suggest staying with 2.6 or 2.7 from
python.org for now. With Activestate you have to compile yourself or use
their (paid?) pypm repo.

Cheers,
Ralf
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