[Yt-dev] yt in MacPorts

Cameron Hummels chummels at astro.columbia.edu
Fri Aug 19 19:31:55 PDT 2011


Nice work!  Great idea, Thomas!

Cameron

On 8/19/11 8:37 PM, Thomas Robitaille wrote:
> Dear yt developers,
>
> I just wanted to let you know that I've added yt to the MacPorts
> package manager (http://www.macports.org/).
>
> I recently created a page with instructions for how to set up a fully
> functioning Python distribution for Astronomy with MacPorts:
>
> http://astrofrog.github.com/macports-python/
>
> and as of today, you can type:
>
> sudo port install py27-yt
>
> and yt and all required dependencies will be installed. I'd be happy
> to advertise this on the users mailing list if you like, or feel free
> to do it if you prefer.
>
> Note that MacPorts relies on stable releases, so I had to use the
> auto-generated 2.1 tar file on bitbucket, which MacPorts needs to
> apply a one-line patch to in order to get to compile. Just letting you
> know so you are aware that this installation method is dependent on
> the tags.
>
> In addition to py27-yt, I created py25-yt and py26-yt (it's easy to
> have multiple Python versions side by side in MacPorts).
>
> Note that it's also possible to install the latest dev version of yt -
> the easiest way it to install py27-yt as above to get all the
> dependencies working, then to download the latest source and do
>
> python setup.py install --user
>
> Let me know if you have any questions about this!
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas Robitaille
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