Re: [Visualpython-users] Visualpython 3.2.1 for Mac OSX 10.4 now in Fink

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

Hurray! Mac users are much indebted to you for all this work, Martin. 
Thank you.

I'll put these instructions on the VPython Mac download page.

Bruce Sherwood

Martin Costabel wrote:

> There is now a Fink package for vpython version 3.2.1.
> If you have Fink installed on Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and the unstable 
> tree enabled, you can get it via:
>
>  fink selfupdate
>  fink install visual-py23
>
> This will download and build vpython and all necessary prerequisites. 
> It doesn't build a special version of gcc, apparently the ones that 
> are in OSX 10.4.2 and Xcode-tools-2.1 are good enough (or at least I 
> didn't come across the bugs they still may have).
>
> There are actually 2 variants, visual-py23 and visual-py24. Which one 
> you want to install depends mainly on the versions of the dependencies 
> you perhaps already have installed: python, numarray, numeric. Both 
> variants can be installed simultaneously, there are no conflicts, and 
> the dependencies are chosen and built automatically.
>
> The binary executables are called vpython2.3 and vpython2.4, 
> respectively.
>
> When fink asks you at the beginning of the build process to choose 
> whether you want to install boost1.32-py23 or boost1.32-py24, you can 
> choose either one if you have the corresponding version of Fink's 
> python installed, they are identical. If you don't have Fink's python 
> installed yet, choose the version that corresponds to the version of 
> visual you are going to install, or otherwise you will end up building 
> two versions of python. This is no problem, however, except for 
> compilation time, both versions of python coexist peacefully (not both 
> variants of boost1.32-pyXY, however).
>