[Yt-dev] [yt-users] install problems

Stephen Skory stephenskory at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 12 13:22:45 PST 2011


Matt & Britton,

>OS 10.6 comes with python 2.6.  Would it be better if they just used that python and didn't try to build another one?  Can we add another flag to the install script to optionally build python?


Along the same lines, we could write some instructions on using yt with enthought python. It comes with many handy things...

>>>>Can you check the options in ./configure, and if none of those are

There is no preference for that in ./configure AFAICT.

>>>>obvious, can you investigate how much work getting a localize gettext
>>>>to install is?

I installed gettext - it didn't help.

>  Or, better yet, maybe this is improved/fixed in python
>>>>2.7, and you could test that?


I might try that out.


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