[Pythonmac-SIG] Distributing Python applications for the Mac

[Chris Barker]

Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> because
>    automatic installation from source code doesn't work due to the header
>    file installation problems (all my C modules are based on NumPy).

What's the problem? while the headers are not included in the binary 
install of Numeric, they are included in the source install (aren't 
they? -- they used to be, and certainly should be). If your users 
install both eh source and binary Numeric packages, they should get the 
headers and not have to compile Numeric. The only downside is that they 
might get scared away by the "source" concept, and they'll have a bunch 
of extra code lying around that they don't need.

By the way, IIRC, Jack had a good reason to not include the headers as 
part of the binary package, but I don't' recall what it is.. personally, 
I'd like to see that. I have no particular desire to compile Numeric for 
myself, but I do need to compile against the headers, and I think that's 
a pretty common use case for Numeric. The general argument is that if 
you are compiling custom extensions, you know enough to compile Numeric, 
but with distutils, it is so easy to compile extensions, I'm not sure 
that logic holds anymore.

-Chris




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