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

[Eric A. <Ay...@ma...>]

Does this run under X, or under the "regular" OSX window manager?

-EA

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Dr. Eric Ayars
Assistant Professor of Physics
California State University, Chico
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On Aug 27, 2005, at 6:49 AM, 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).
>
> -- 
> Martin
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