[SciPy-dev] Python (Enthought Edition) for Windows test release

[grogers]

Joe, I'll try this on my home machine in the next couple of days. 

Last weekend I installed the 1057 enthon install and our proava svn 
converge branch.  While basic python was fine, anything that used swig 
failed to build. Something about unable to find a definition for  
PyCObject  or something like that.  I didn't trace down the problem.  
I'll let you know how it goes....

Joe Cooper wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The much anticipated new release of the Enthought Edition of Python 
> (a.k.a. Enthon) is just about ready for release into the real world. 
> I'd like for some of you brave developer-type folks to give it a go 
> before I announce it more widely and link it from the Enthon home page.
>
> Some highlights of the latest version:
>
> - iPython 0.6.7_rc2 is the default shell
>
> - The Enthought Open Source Python tools have been added.  This 
> includes a few things that migrated out of the SciPy CVS repository 
> and into the Enthought SVN repository about a year ago, or 
> thereabouts. Specifically, new versions of traits, chaco, kiva, etc.  
> It's all really cool, but documentation is not yet available that I 
> know of.  If it doesn't work for you, ask Dave lots of questions.  
> Tell him I said it would be OK.  (I'm joking.  Don't ask Dave 
> anything.  Documentation exists, somewhere, and I'll chase someone 
> around the office until it is made available on the website.)
>
> - matplotlib
>
> - Pyrex
>
> - Elmer
>
> - Most packages have been updated to their latest revision, with 
> exceptions for compatibility
>
> - readline (from UNC Tools, to be specific)
>
> - Additional documentation and some reorganization of the menus to 
> make it less confusing and more functional
>
> - An extra 20 megabytes of random-seeming stuff...Woohoo!  It's not 
> over 100MB, yet, but I reckon one more revision will do it.
>
> What isn't in this latest version:
>
> - Python 2.4
>
> There will be an all-singing, all-dancing, all-new, from-scratch 
> Enthon built from the new MSI-based Python 2.4 installer, but it's a 
> pretty big job, so I wanted to get a final 2.3 release out into the 
> world before I hunker down and figure out the new msi installer.  That 
> said, I'm downright ecstatic to be giving Wise the boot.  If I never 
> see that line editor again in this lifetime, it will be too soon.
>
> In the meantime, if you all can grab this latest test release and let 
> me know how it works for you, I'd be very grateful.  Do whatever it is 
> that you currently do with build 1057 of Enthon (the last public 
> release), and if it doesn't work right in build 1062, let me 
> know--send the error output and a test case so I can reproduce it and 
> know it is fixed.  If there's other stuff you'd like to be able to do, 
> but Enthon never quite worked right, I won't mind hearing about that 
> either.
>
> So, without further ado, here's the link:
>
> http://download.enthought.com/enthought_python-2.3.3-1062.exe
>
> Thanks!
>
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