Installing asymptote

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
> Reason for question: Given that I already had texlive installed (but not
> through MacPorts), I tried installing the asymptote binary obtained directly
> from http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/. But when I run the xasy command, I
> get a pop-up saying that the PIL (Python Imaging Library) Imaging-1.1.7 is
> required. And trying to install PIL leads to a further chain of dependencies
> which seems like more trouble than should be necessary.

Completely off-topic and it doesn't answer your question, but
asymptote is already part of MacTeX. Is anything wrong with that one
(maybe it doesn't have enough "sugars" / library dependencies)?

Mojca