[SciPy-user] Enthought Python Distribution
Travis Vaught
We're pleased to announce the beta release of the Enthought Python
Distribution for *Mac OS X*.
http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php
This release should safely install alongside other existing Python
installations on your Mac. With the Mac OS X platform support, EPD
now provides a consistent scientific application tool set across three
major platforms (Windows, RedHat Linux (32 and 64 bit) and OS X). This
is a _beta_ release, so install at your own risk. Please provide any
feedback to in...@enthought.com. See the included EPD Readme.txt for
instructions and known issues.
About EPD
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The Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) is a "kitchen-sink-included"
distribution of the Python™ Programming Language, including over 60
additional tools and libraries. The EPD bundle includes the following
major packages:
Python Core Python
NumPy Multidimensional arrays and fast numerics for Python
SciPy Scientific Library for Python
Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) A suite of tools including:
Traits Manifest typing, validation, visualization, delegation,
etc.
Mayavi 3D interactive data exploration environment.
Chaco Advanced 2D plotting toolkit for interactive 2D
visualization.
Kiva 2D drawing library in the spirit of DisplayPDF.
Enable Object-based canvas for interacting with 2D components
and widgets.
Matplotlib 2D plotting library
wxPython Cross-platform windowing and widget library.
Visualization Toolkit (VTK) 3D visualization framework
There are many more included packages as well. There's a complete
list here:
http://www.enthought.com/products/epdlibraries.php
License
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EPD is a bundle of software--every piece of which is available for
free under various open-source licenses. The bundle itself is offered
as a free download to academic and individual hobbyist use.
Commercial and non-degree granting institutions and agencies may
purchase individual subscriptions for the bundle (http://www.enthought.com/products/order.php?ver=MacOSX
) or contact Enthought to discuss an Enterprise license (http://www.enthought.com/products/enterprise.php
). Please see the FAQ for further explanation about how the software
came together. (http://www.enthought.com/products/epdfaq.php)
Thanks,
Travis
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Fernando Perez
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Travis Vaught <tra...@enthought.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We're pleased to announce the beta release of the Enthought Python
> Distribution for *Mac OS X*.
First of all, this is *fantastic*. OSX has been a major pain for us
here in terms of distribution, so I am extremely happy and grateful to
you guys for putting this out.
Two minor requests: any chance in the next release, you could update
ipython and matplotlib? You are shipping 0.8.1 and 0.91.2, both of
which are fairly old and the current versions of both do have
reasonably useful improvements and fixes (ipython has threading fixes
that impact plotting, and mpl has all the new mathtext code that gives
good math rendering without needing latex).
In any case, a big cheer from me :)
Regards,
f
Mark Bakker
I have benefited from the Enthought distribution for years, and really want to switch to a Mac, so this is great news.
My main concern with the Enthought distribution is the frequency of new releases. The guys at Python(x,y) are exceptionally quick at updating. That may be hard to match (and cost a lot of effort). What are your plans at releasing updates? Any chance we can look forward to a new version maybe 4 times a year or so?
Thanks again for putting these together,
Mark
Travis Vaught
Travis Vaught
On Jul 2, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> Hey Travis,
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Travis Vaught <tra...@enthought.com>
> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> We're pleased to announce the beta release of the Enthought Python
>> Distribution for *Mac OS X*.
>
> First of all, this is *fantastic*. OSX has been a major pain for us
> here in terms of distribution, so I am extremely happy and grateful to
> you guys for putting this out.
You're quite welcome. I'm glad it's useful. Let us know if you see
any issues in the beta.
>
>
> Two minor requests: any chance in the next release, you could update
> ipython and matplotlib? You are shipping 0.8.1 and 0.91.2, both of
> which are fairly old and the current versions of both do have
> reasonably useful improvements and fixes (ipython has threading fixes
> that impact plotting, and mpl has all the new mathtext code that gives
> good math rendering without needing latex).
I want to see these as well. It should be no problem to get these in
the next release. In fact we'll upgrade to the latest versions of
_everything_ as long as the developers recommend doing so and there
are no compatibility issues.
>
>
> In any case, a big cheer from me :)
:-)
Thanks,
Travis
Fernando Perez
> I want to see these as well. It should be no problem to get these in
> the next release. In fact we'll upgrade to the latest versions of
> _everything_ as long as the developers recommend doing so and there
> are no compatibility issues.
Any chance the next release might happen before scipy'08? It would
make an enormous difference for those of us teaching the tutorials to
have this as an installation option. Perhaps after waiting for the
outcome of the Mayavi sprint you guys are holding right now...
I know that if we could point all attendees to reasonably up to date
installers for the tools the tutorials will cover on Win32 and OSX,
things will be a LOT smoother than they were last year. I think we
were really hurt last year by underestimating (I fully take the blame
for that) the importance of installation issues. We burned valuable
time on that and probably left quite a few people behind simply
because debugging install problems on a one by one basis was
impossible under those circumstances.
In any case, thanks again for this!
Cheers,