[pymvpa] MacPorts and pymvpa

[James Kyle]

On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Michael Hanke wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:32:08PM -0800, James Kyle wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> First, a thanks to the developers for all the work on what promises  
>> to
>> be a very fun python library.
>>
>> I took on the task of creating a MacPorts Portfile for pymvpa. Here's
>> a summary of the changes I made in the patch:
> That is great!
>
> I'd be extremely glad if you could provide some instructions how Mac  
> users can
> easily benefit from your work. I'd be more than happy to discontinue  
> our
> installer and use something more Debian-like for the Mac as well.

When the my port submissions go live, all it'll take is a
$ sudo port install py25-pymvpa +variant1 +variant2...

They're not in the main repository yet, but it normally doesn't take  
long. A day or two, longer than that I'll ping someone to enable them.


> That would probably require some instruction starting from scratch,
> since most of the Mac I have installed PyMVPA on so far had no  
> MacPorts
> installation.

MacPorts is dirt simple to install, they have a mpkg for the task.
http://www.macports.org/

You don't have to worry about collisions, all programs and files are  
self contained in /opt/local and except for gcc, all dependencies are  
compiled within the ports environment to prevent stomping on system  
files (much like fink).


> OTOH, is there anything we can do to easy your work on that issue?
I ran into a hitch with compiling ATLAS (http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/ 
) libs for shogun. The ATLAS clapack API is not as complete as  
netlib's (which it looks like shogun uses). Have you guys ran into  
this issue before? Any solutions? I've contacted the ATLAS maintainer  
for the port, so he'll (hopefully) be familiar with the ATLAS build  
process and how to link to external libs.


> BTW: Are you using a macport for pynifti as well -- I tried to find  
> some
> information about that but did not succeed. Pointers are very welcome.

Yes, I created a pynifti port as well and submitted it. The ticket is  
found here:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17933

-james

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
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