On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ondrej Certik<ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > > Hi, > > we spent about 6 hours with Prabhu trying to install VTK in Sage on > Mac on the scipy09. We failed and Prabhu suggested to just use the > framework build of python. > > I will try in the second half of September (I am busy till then). If > that works, I will just try to switch to the framework build with > FEMhub (femhub.org). > > Hopefully Sage could maybe switch too, we'll see. Ideally I don't want > to maintain something different than Sage. But unfortunately VTK and > mayavi is essential to what we do and if it can't be installed on Mac > with the current approach, it has to be fixed somehow.
I'm fine with switching to the framework build for Sage if it "just works". What are the drawbacks? When I think about the drawbacks now the only thing I can think of is "Michael Abshoff didn't want to switch to it". But I can't think of anything else. Sage originally wasn't a framework build on OS X, since when I ported Sage to OS X in the first place, I had never heard of framework builds. I think that not being a framework build is mainly just inertia from that. By the way, I remember when porting Sage to OS X years ago that surprisingly it was a lot harder than porting Sage to Cygwin at that time! William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
