py27-numeric is replaced by py24-numeric ???

Scott Webster sewebster at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 16:46:03 PDT 2011


I did actually manually install py27-numeric first, so maybe that's
what made the difference.

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Scott Webster <sewebster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed py27-biopython without incident on my snow leopard
> system.  The dependencies that were installed because of this were:
> py27-numeric
> py27-tkinter
> py27-pil
> py27-reportlab
>
> I already had everything else.
>
> Scott
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:40 PM, JP Glutting <jpglutting at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, I don't understand it either. In fact, I am not sure why Reportlab or
>> Biopython depend on numeric, if anything is should be numpy (there may be
>> some issues I don't understand, but Reportlab should only depend on the
>> PIL: http://www.reportlab.com/software/installation/ ). I don't really want
>> numeric, it is old and has been pretty much replaced by numpy, as far as I
>> am aware. Biopython specifically mentions NumPy, and Reportlab doesn't
>> mention either.
>> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/install/Installation.html#htoc11
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at macports.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Adding jmr.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why you're seeing "is replaced by py24-numeric" because there
>>> is no py24-numeric.  You should use py-numeric.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 29, 2011, at 11:51, Frank Schima wrote:
>>>
>>> > I see the same problem and it occurred because of selfupdate.
>>> >
>>> > $sudo port selfupdate
>>> > ....
>>> > $ port outdated
>>> > The following installed ports are outdated:
>>> > py26-numeric                   24.2_0 < 24.2_2
>>> > $ port installed py26-numeric
>>> > The following ports are currently installed:
>>> >  py26-numeric @24.2_0 (active)
>>> > $ sudo port upgrade py26-numeric
>>> > --->  py26-numeric is replaced by py24-numeric
>>> > ...
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Jul 29, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> port selfupdate
>>> >>
>>> >> On Jul 29, 2011, at 10:26, JP Glutting wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> I just tried to upgrade outdated packages, and the first message on
>>> >>> the list
>>> >>> was:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --> py27-numeric is replaced by py24-numeric
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I imagine that pyXX-numeric is deprecated, to fall back on
>>> >>> py24-numeric, but
>>> >>> this affects py27-reportlab (which in turn affects py27-biopython,
>>> >>> which is
>>> >>> what I want). It seems like it would be awkward to run biopython using
>>> >>> python 2.4. Especially since biopython is dropping python2.4 support (
>>> >>> http://news.open-bio.org/news/2010/11/dropping-python24-support/ ).
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Biopython should depend on numpy, not numeric. I can't see a ticket on
>>> >>> this
>>> >>> yet. Should I open one?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks,
>>> >>> JP
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