[Numpy-discussion] 1.4.0 installer fails on OSX 10.6.2

[David Cournapeau]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:24 AM, David Warde-Farley <dwf at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> On 5-Jan-10, at 7:18 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
>> If distutils/setuptools could identify the python version properly,
>> then
>>  binary eggs and easy-install could be a solution -- but that's a
>> mess,
>> too.
>
>
> Long live toydist! :)

Toydist will not solve anything here. Versioning info is useless here
if it does not translate to compatible ABI. What is required is to be
able to identify a precise python ABI: python makes that hard, mac os
x harder, and universal builds ever harder. Things like PEP 384 may
help in the future -  As it is written by someone who actually knows
about this stuff, it will hopefully be useful.

David