[Pythonmac-SIG] Fink, DarwinPorts vs py2app

[Robert Kern]

Chris Barker wrote:

> I really think we can get a complete set of OS-X friendly packages out 
> for all to use. it's really not all that hard, once you've got the 
> tricks figured out. We'll have a MUCH easier time getting folks to use 
> python on OS-X if we have nice friendly binaries for them to install.
> 
> By the way, what is the status of Package Manger, and the two 
> repositories (Jack's and Bob's) Are they being maintained? should I 
> submit matplotlib to them?
> 
> If anyone want to help with my SciPy on OS-X project, please let me 
> know. There is some real momentum in the NumPy/SciPy crowd to make SciPy 
> easier to install right now.

Scipy is actually one of the easier packages for me to bdist_mpkg up. 
OTOH, I've been building scipy regularly for *years* now.

http://www.scipy.org/wikis/featurerequests/MacEnthon

I was hoping to have some beta packages out this week, but personal 
annoyances are probably going to push it out of the way right now.

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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