[Visualpython-users] MacEnthon

[Gary P. <gp...@ri...>]

Many of you have probably seen the recent unveiling of "MacEnthon"

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

It's a all-in-one scientific package for python, similar to Enthought 
Python for windows, including scipy, matplotlib, ipython ....   The 
author says that "The goal is to make something that a user can install 
and have running without installing anything else, so it is going to use 
the pre-installed Python (or install its own in the case of Python 2.4)."

It is a "framework" package.

I use the Mac less and less these days, but it is a fixture around here, 
so it won't go away.   I've been *more* than comfortable with the fink 
set-up, and in fact, I wish the MacEnthon effort was a fink package.  
But it's not.

The advertised ease of setup of MacEnthon has *great* appeal:   single 
click installation.   I think the attraction to MacEnthon is going to be 
enormous, leaving us to decide between a complete (too much, in fact) 
scientific environment installed with a single click, *without* vpython, 
versus the rather pesky fink vpython, along with a raft of other 
individual packages, some of which are not updated regularly.

So ... is this new development providing enough reason to develop a 
"framework" vpython?
(Asked in ignorance of the technical details, and a sense of the level 
of effort needed.)

-gary