On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Brian Granger<ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just pinged the pythonmac-sig group about why and when a framework > build is actually needed. A while back I created an spkg for qt/pyqt > and I remember that I needed to do a framework build to get it to > work. My recollection is that if you want Python to be able to do > anything with the native Mac GUI, it needs to be a framework build. > If this is indeed the case, I think it would be a great idea to have > the Sage python be a framework build and I have an older spkg around > somewhere that does this without any bugs (that I know of ;-)). I > know that in SPD, we would like to be able to have an spkgs for > matplotlib that includes real GUI support. Plus I know that some > folks are obviously linterested in VTK, Mayavi stuff as well. > > I will dig up my framework python spkg and get back after I hear from > the pythonmac-sig folks.
Could you please share it? I have created sip (sip is something like swig, needed to built pyqt) and pyqt packages here: http://femhub.googlecode.com/files/sip.spkg http://femhub.googlecode.com/files/pyqt.p1.spkg the sip is 0.5MB, pyqt is 1MB, sip builds instantly, pyqt in about 10 min on my laptop and 7 min on my workstation (not in parallel). So it nicely works on linux, however on mac, the sip package refuses to build, because python is not built with framework support. I will use pyqt using traits-qt backend for my gui applications. VTK also doesn't build without the framework support, but we'll look at it at scipy09 with Prabhu, so maybe we'll fix it. however, from what I understood above, there is no way to fix pyqt to work with Sage on Mac, unless we use framework. Am I missing something? If that is the case, then it's an absolute showstopper for me, if I can't use Sage as a framework for our gui apps. I don't have time thought to invest it into porting things to mac, so for the time being I chose the strategy to disable packages that just don't build on Mac in our distribution (femhub.org) and that's it. Also, what is the state of the windows port of Sage --- will it be possible to just maintain one spkg and it would build on windows, or will it be necessary to maintain one spkg for linux/mac and another one for windows? Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
