[Pythonmac-SIG] Compiling Scipy/available binaries for Universal Python 2.4?

[Christopher Barker]

David Warde-Farley wrote:

> I think this means that the Universal scipy binaries offered on  
> pythonmac.org are quite broken.

Yes, they are -- or at least very limited.

Is it that hard to make a binary to put up (OK, two - one for PPC, one 
for Intel), once you've gotten it all built? At least a few people have 
gotten it going recently. Could someone please make them available?

I understand one of the issue is that you need gfortran libs in 
/usr/local/... and perhaps some other stuff scattered about. Ideally, 
we'd figure out a way to move all these under the Python tree, but in 
the meantime, if you can't take all that and put in in one .mpkg, maybe 
a tarball would do -- something that people could just unpack and get a 
working system.

By the way, my idea of a working system is:

python 2.5 (I'm still on 2.4, but if someone is putting effort in, they 
might as well do the latest)

latest numpy
latest matplotlib
latest wxPython

All working together!

This really makes OS-X look bad a platform.

-Chris



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