Re: [Visualpython-users] native Mac

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

I'm no Mac developer but ... would the MacEnthon project help us get 
things straight?
http://www.scipy.org/wikis/featurerequests/MacEnthon
(a one-click-install native Mac scientific python environment.)


I have one foot in Windows and one foot in Mac and I can tell you that 
installing on a Mac is a real pain.  Over Chrismas I had to install on 
some virgin (fink-less, X11-less) 10.2 machines and some 10.3 machines.  
10.3 was a little smoother, but it took about 12 days to do the job.  (I 
also installed scipy, ipython and matplotlib).    I also had to install 
on a Windows machine.  The whole thing took 20 minutes.
 
[Personally I don't like the Mac interface, so I normally operate on the 
Mac using fink apps in Xwindows.   (flame on!)  But I'm sure I can learn 
to love the Mac.  :)   I'm old and set in my ways, having cut my teeth 
on punch cards, and then advanced to RT-11]



Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> We have a Mac lab and one of the support people made the following 
> comment, which I pass along on the chance it will suggest another 
> possible approach for someone in the VPython community who is 
> knowledgeable about the Mac environment.
>
> ----------------------
> I find it much more difficult for me to support the separate Xwindows 
> vpython.  My goal is to get to a native MacOS X implementation which 
> can be layered on the python that ships from the vendor.  From my 
> stand point if I could just add Numeric and Visual to 
> /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages and then call 
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/idlelib/idle 
>  I am way ahead of the game support wise (no Xwindows to block logout, 
> no long build sessions, vendor does most of the work, etc).
>
> So to that end, the dependencies not shipped with 10.4 appear to be 
> Boost and Gtk+ (which both have 10.3/4 native builds). I believe that 
> a full non-Xwindows build of Visual could be done (Numeric and 
> numarray are already available at http://pythonmac.org/packages/) but 
> I do not have the resources to put into any development in this area.  
> There may be other dependencies I am not aware of as well.
>
> Otherwise:
> For the individual user the workaround posted by Aaron Titus is fine. 
> If you wanted to extend that by creating a platypus 
> (http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus) application which would be a 
> self contained application of the vpython Xwindows parts from fink 
> that would be great!!
>
>
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