[MacPorts] #45046: Missing "numeric" dependency in wxpython-2.8

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#45046: Missing "numeric" dependency in wxpython-2.8
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 Reporter:  fw@…                    |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
     Type:  defect                  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal                  |  Milestone:
Component:  ports                   |    Version:  2.3.1
 Keywords:  wxpython numpy numeric  |       Port:  py27-wxpython-2.8
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 Grass stopped working, apparently due to the numpy upgrade from 1.8 to
 1.9.  The error is:

   File
 "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/lib/plot.py", line 132, in <module>
     raise ImportError, "Numeric,numarray or NumPy not found. \n" + msg
    ...

 The relevant code is:

 # Needs Numeric or numarray or NumPy
 try:
     import numpy.oldnumeric as _Numeric
 except:
     try:
         import numarray as _Numeric  #if numarray is used it is renamed
 Numeric
     except:
         try:
             import Numeric as _Numeric
         except:
            ...

 It appears that numpy was able to satisfy this until the numpy port was
 upgraded to 1.9, where "oldnumeric" had been removed.  I was able to work
 around the problem by installing py27-numeric.

 The wxpython-2.8 package doesn't list either numpy or numeric as
 dependencies, which may have led to the failure to discover the downside
 of upgrading the numpy port.

 It appears that there was a fix in wxwidgets 3.0 to fix the compatibility
 problem with numpy 1.9, but the only variant of grass that claims to work
 (experimentally) with V3.0 doesn't actually work.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45046>
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