[SciPy-user] OS X install success! + Question

Gael Varoquaux gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org
Wed Jul 30 10:10:40 EDT 2008


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:57:07AM -0400, Zachary Pincus wrote:
> With easy_install, this sort of transparency is a bit lost. You need  
> to look to see which version of python is invoked in the first line of  
> that script to determine where the files will eventually go. If you  
> have two versions of python, you need two versions of easy_install in  
> different places. I personally find this a bit frustrating...

Hum, are you sure you need two versions of easy_install? Doesn't using
the "-d" option, or the "--prefix" work? Alternatively, if you don't like
typing the options all the time, there is a configuration file to set it:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#configuration-files

Gaël



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