[Pythonmac-SIG] Building Numeric Python on Panther

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 3, 2004, at 14:01, Bill Janssen wrote:

> I just downloaded the latest versions of numarray and Numeric Python.
> numarray builds and installs without problems, but Numeric fails -- it
> seems to have a bad setup.py file that references missing directories
> such as "/usr/include/atlas".  Is there a set of patches for building
> this on Panther against the stock 2.3.0 Python release?

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2004-November/012077.html

> (Bonus question: the Numeric Python documentation makes it clear that
> numarray should be used, but not how.  Is numarray a substitute for
> all of Numeric?  If not, should numarray be installed before NumPy?)

I think what they mean is that new applications should use numarray.  I 
think the Python API is largely the same, but not everything is the 
same (the C API, for example).

There are no interdependencies, so installation order isn't going to 
make a lick of difference.

-bob