Re: [matplotlib-devel] Renaming OSX wheels on pypi to make them more general

[Matthew B. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Chris Barker <chr...@no...> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw...> wrote:
>>
>> What I need is a python, numpy, and matplotlib that support 32-bit and
>> (preferably) 64-bit for MacOS X 10.6 and later. I have been using
>> python.org python and the standard binary installers until now.
>
>
> well we (that is, Matthew) have scripts that build those, so no reason not
> to keep doing it.
>
>>
>> Until Mavericks I was using 64-bit mode. Unfortunately 32-bit is
>> required for older versions of Tcl/Tk to run under Mavericks
>
>
> kind of ironic that the latest OS doesn't end up supporting 64 bit!
>
>>
>> I realize I'm in an unusual situation,
>
>
> maybe -- but tkInter is part of the standard library, so we probably do want
> to support it! If nothing else, various folks that teach Python use the
> turtle module early on -- and one of the use cases for
> easy-to-fine-and-install binaries is newbies...

Updating for those of you not on the numpy mailing list - I've
uploaded 32 / 64 bit numpy / scipy wheels to pypi, so we should be
good for 32-bit compatibility now.  I hope that will continue for at
least a couple of years, because I've automated the 32 / 64 bit build
process [1] and added 32-bit tests to my scipy-stack test rig [2].

So, I think it is time to rename the matplotlib wheels as I proposed
at the beginning of the thread.  I propose to do that tomorrow unless
anyone can think of a reason not to.

Cheers,

Matthew

[1] https://github.com/matthew-brett/numpy-atlas-binaries
[2] https://travis-ci.org/matthew-brett/scipy-stack-osx-testing