Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Latest Numpy version not compatible with PyOpenGL-accelerate in PyOpenGL 3.0.1

[Dan H. <Dan...@no...>]

On 06/03/2010 06:37 AM, Andrew Downing wrote:
> Hi PyOpenGL folks,
>
> I'm new here. I've previously used OpenGL bindings in Ruby but I've
> recently become a Python convert.
> Loving the implementation so far. Great stuff. Thanks for all the hard work.
>
> Just an FYI, shortly after your release 3.0.1, Numpy released a new
> 1.4.? version which is now the default download from there.
> If you just follow the instructions on the PyOpenGL installation web
> page (doing Windows install), and choose to include the
> pyOpenGL-accelerate, pyOpenGL will not work and will fail with
> mysterious errors.
> I took a flying guess, looking at your release datte and the Numpy
> release dates that would most likely have coincided with your
> development and decided to revert to Numpy 1.3.
> It worked and all is well.
>
> It might be good for the project if someone were to update the
> installation web page so other people don't have to do the same guess work.
>

NumPy 1.4.0 is (unintentionally) ABI-incompatible with both NumPy 1.3.x 
and 1.4.1+. If that's the problem you're running into, you might want to 
try using NumPy 1.4.1 and/or recompiling PyOpenGL-accelerate.

Dan