using macports and numpy dependency

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Sun Oct 4 17:28:53 PDT 2009


On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 05:26:39PM -0700, Artie Ziff said:
> Hello,
> 
> Perhaps someone can clarify dependency details?
> 
> Does MacPorts "info" indicate that numpy module is configured (in
> MacPorts) to work only with python24?
> 
> I already had python26 installed and selected.
> 
> Is there a way to specify to MacPorts not to install python24, in this
> situation, and use python 2,6 instead?

You want the py26-numpy port, py-* ports are all 2.4-based, py25-* for 2.5,
etc...

Bryan


> 
> Is this an example of a situation where it is better to use a different
> strategy, if I do not want to use python 2.4?
> 
> ###
> 
> $ port info py-numpy
> py-numpy @1.3.0 (python)
> 
> Description:          The core utilities for the scientific library
> scipy for Python
> Homepage:             http://numpy.scipy.org/
> 
> Library Dependencies: python24, fftw-3, py-nose
> Platforms:            darwin
> License:              unknown
> Maintainers:          dh at macports.org, openmaintainer at macports.org
> 
> ###
> 
> Thanks!
> AZ


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