[Numpy-discussion] Binary releases

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Russell E. Owen <rowen at uw.edu> wrote:

> In article
> <CABL7CQg5vV_Vnp0hbdX+ys6Gt0nPWqehTH3mWb6j65OW9+13aA at mail.gmail.com>,
>  Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:45 AM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Charles R Harris
> > > <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Numpy 1.8 is about ready for an rc1, which brings up the question of
> > > which
> > > > binary builds so put up on sourceforge. For Windows maybe
> > > >...
> > > > OS X 10.6  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler,
> > > linked
> > > > with Accelerate.
> > > > OS X 10.7  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler,
> > > linked
> > > > with Accelerate.
> > > > OS X 10.8  python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, compiled with native compiler,
> > > linked
> > > > with Accelerate.
> > > >
> > > > That seems like a lot. It is fairly easy to compile from source on
> the
> > > mac
> > > > these days, are all those binary packages really needed?
> > >
> >
> > That's not exactly the right list - the same installers built on 10.6
> also
> > work on 10.7 and 10.8.
>
> I agree. I'll chime in and give my recommendations, though Ralf is the
> expert:
>

David is our resident build/distribute guru actually.


> For MacOS X I suggest building binary installers for python.org's python
> 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3 (the 64-bit versions). The result will run on 10.6 and
> later. It is safest to build these on MacOS X 10.6; it may work to build
> on a later MacOS X, but it sure doesn't for some packages.
>

Agreed. I think we discussed before not providing OS X 10.5 and python 2.6
binaries, that would make sense imho.


>
> You will have to update to the latest bdist_mpkg to build Mac binary
> installers for python 3. I've not tried it yet.
>

I just tried, it's now possible to build 3.x binaries with a simple ``paver
dmg -p 3.3``.


>
> I don't think users expect a binary installer for Apple's python; I
> don't recall ever seeing these for numpy, scipy, matplotlib.... But if
> you do want to supply one,


We don't I think. Just python.org, keeps it simple.

Cheers,
Ralf


> Apple provides Python 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 but no
> 3.x (at least in MacOS X 10.8).
>
> -- Russell
>
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