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

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

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Matthew Brett <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> 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.

Done - please let me know if you have any problems.

Matthew