(BTW: Thanks for the *fast* response to my Circle question earlier!) This is a more general question: should Sage or other large systems use the Mac frameworks on Macs? Or more generally, shared libraries on other systems/distros?
I ask because I recently downloaded GRASS, a large GIS system. There were three Mac versions. I tried one of the all-in-on isolated packages and it failed. I then asked the forum about what the tradeoffs were. The Framework based solution was the one I went with. It gave me several advantages: the libraries used by GRASS were made generally available, rather than being hidden in the application. In GIS this is quite a win. It also solved the incompatibilities between various versions of the python libraries, making it work better with the rest of the system. With Python this is a huge win .. as much as I like Python, it seems to have a great deal of difficulty with version management, both with the python version and the versions of the libraries. So specifically, if I install Sage, I'd like the packages underneath (numpy etc) to be available to the system running from a vanilla python command line or script. I may have this all wrong, being a newbie to python packaging .. but if I'm right, wouldn't it be best for Sage to be able to use the existing system, using shared libraries/Mac-Frameworks? I can guess the answer: its just too hard to manage compatibility problems! -- Owen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
