[Pythonmac-SIG] Numeric headers and Package Manager

[Chris Barker]

Hi all,

I just installed 2.3 and then loaded most of the stuff in Package 
Manager, and it all went swimmingly! Very nice job, Jack, and everyone 
else involved.

I use Numeric a lot, including a bunch of extensions I've written and 
need to compile. Unfortunately, the Numeric header files (most notably 
arrayobject.h) are not installed by Package Manager. My solution is to 
go download the source form sourceforge, and copy arrayobject.h  to:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/include/python2.3

Now I can compile my extensions with distutils in the usual way.

Would it make sense to do this by default? Or maybe have a Numeric-dev 
package? by the way, ifyou do a standard setup.py install of Numeric, 
it doesn't put the header in either, but at least in that case, you 
have all the source right in front of you.

-Chris


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