sunpy/sunpy — pull request #310 by astrofrog (2012-09-23 21:06:12+00:00)
Title: Added documentation section for MacPorts

SunPy is now available in MacPorts:

$ port info py27-sunpy
py27-sunpy @0.1, Revision 1 (python, science)
Variants: universal

Description: The SunPy project is an effort to create an open-source
software library for solar physics using the Python
programming language.
Homepage: http://www.sunpy.org

Build Dependencies: py27-numpy, py27-scipy, py27-matplotlib, py27-pyfits,
py27-pyqt4, py27-suds, py27-pandas, py27-beautifulsoup4,
py27-configobj, py27-distribute, py27-py
Library Dependencies: python27
Platforms: darwin
License: BSD
Maintainers: robitaille@macports.org

This minor PR adds some text to the MacPorts section of the installation. SunPy is now available in MacPorts, although I'd like to make sure I have set up the dependencies correctly (c.f. #309) before this is merged. In particular, maybe the package is Python 3 compatible (though one of the dependencies, configobj, doesn't appear to be, hence why I am waiting on #309). Also, maybe some of the listed dependencies are not really needed and can be removed.

In addition, for people not at academic institutions and where EPD (full) is not available, MacPorts is actually much better than EPD Free, so maybe it deserves a top-level heading? I actually now recommend it over EPD in any case, as it allows people to have concurrent Python installations (e.g. I have 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, and 3.2), and it allows packages to be easily updated.