[vtkusers] VTK and Python on OS X El Capitan

[Eric Nodwell]

Hi Matthew,

Oh well, in that case, I'm glad I gave up trying to compile them
myself for every new release. My thanks to you and Sturla.

Eric


On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Eric Nodwell
> <eric.nodwell at numerics88.com> wrote:
>> I don't think Apple has been entirely consistent here. For example, I
>> am 99.999% sure that the operating system never needs to use scipy,
>> but they have included that in the system python for a couple of
>> versions now. Furthermore, they link it against their Accelerate
>> Framework, which is wicked fast - and it is very far from trivial to
>> compile scipy with the Accerelate Framework if you want to do it
>> yourself, so it is tempting to use theirs for sure.
>
> The default numpy and scipy wheels are compiled against Accelerate.  I
> mean that if you have python.org Python or homebrew Python / pip then:
>
> pip install numpy scipy
>
> should get you binary installations of numpy and scipy linked against
> Accelerate.
>
> There was a bug in Accelerate that we had to work round a while ago,
> with Sturla's help, but I don't think there were any recent problems
> with Accelerate linking, that I'm aware of.  I'm happy to be corrected
> though.
>
> Best,
>
> Matthew