Wish there was "win python" for Mac

[le...@neilson-levin.org]

Other than the exe installer (which is just a file copying utility) and the register command (which only solves for Windows mess management in the registry) there is nothing "windows" specific about Winpython. It's all just Python (maybe some of the libs are .pyx compiled?).  So, could we have something like "allpython" or "scipython", which is more general?

I love how clean win python is.  it is the easiest python environment to manage of any.  Don't know how the commercial guys (ActiveState, Continuum) can get away with charging.

Based on the recommendation for spyder on the Mac, I went with Anaconda.  It's sort of barely OK.  I want Winpython on Mac.

Any way I can help create this?

[Jim Passmore]

Actually, I think there are *many* parts compiled.  You can start with the python interpreter (executable).  There has to be something that actually runs natively on the OS.  If you look at the developer/build instructions at python.org you'll see you need a C compiler. 

In addition, NumPy/SciPy require C and Fortran compilers to build.  Qt is used for the GUI toolkit, which is written in C++, so it will have to be compiled per OS as well.  I expect there is more.

If you'll look at this link - http://spyder-ide.blogspot.fr/2012/08/scientific-python-distribution-for.html - you'll see some discussion of these compiler issues Pierre had to address when he started WinPython.  I think it would turn out to be a good bit of work.  However, it's open source, so if you want to learn how to build all these packages for Mac...

(Hope this is all correct from Pierre's point of view.)

Jim