[SciPy-User] Python 2.7 / 64-bit

[Corran Webster]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Sebastian Haase <seb.haase at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Corran Webster <cwebster at enthought.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Chris Weisiger <cweisiger at msg.ucsf.edu
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > I'm in the unfortunate situation of needing to make a OSX 64-bit
> version
> >> > of
> >> > a program that uses both Scipy/Numpy and wxWidgets. The former only
> has
> >> > unofficial 64-bit builds and only for Python 2.6; the latter only has
> >> > 64-bit
> >> > builds for 2.7 -- before that, they were using Carbon for UI calls,
> >> > which is
> >> > 32-bit only. So there's a problem there. Hand-building my own version
> of
> >> > either seems to be a pretty gnarly problem that I'd rather avoid if
> >> > possible.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas how far we are from having a 64-bit, Python2.7 build of
> scipy
> >> > and
> >> > numpy for OSX? All else being equal, I'd rather be on 2.7 than 2.6.
> >> > Thanks.
> >> >
> >> > -Chris
> >> >
> >> I would use the Enthought Python Distribution-- consistent Python 2.7
> >> builds across all platforms (including all the libraries you list
> >> above-- assuming you mean wxPython).
> >
> >
> > This is generally a good suggestion, except that unfortunately our 64-bit
> OS
> > X EPD doesn't currently have wxWidgets/wxPython for the above reasons, so
> it
> > won't solve Chris' problem.
> >
> > EPD for OS X does have 64-bit numpy and scipy builds for 2.7, so if you
> are
> > comfortable with building wxWidgets yourself, then EPD may be part of the
> > solution.
> >
> > -- Corran
>
> What is the problem with switching form Carbon to the Cocoa version of wx ?
> Of course it's less tested, and probably has still some glitches, but
> it's seems, that is the only viable direction of OS-X on 64-bit in the
> future.
>

I'm not sure what the issue is, as I don't do the builds, but I know that
wxWidgets/wxPython on OS X 64 isn't yet available.  Ilan Schnell who does do
the EPD builds may be able to give you more information about what the
precise problems are.

-- Corran
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