[osgeo4w-dev] Re: [osgeo4w] #219: Upgrade python version

[Mike Toews]

On 29 April 2011 22:52, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I add missed matplotlib package. It works with Python 2.7 but it depends on
> NumPy. AFAIK there is no official version of NumPy has been released for
> Python 2.7 yet. NumPy 1.4.1 is not quite compatible with Python 2.7 and
> numpy 2.0.dev is a moving target. So there are no official installers of
> matplotlib for Python 2.7 yet.

There are no upstream packages of NumPy 1.4.1 for Python 2.7 on
Windows, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't work. Python 2.7 didn't
exist at the time for that version of NumPy (the two release dates
were off by a month last year).

The current stable version of NumPy is 1.5.1, which has a Windows
package for Python 2.7:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.5.1/

Within the Python 2.x series, it is often much easier to upgrade to a
later version of Python than it is to make a package compatible with
older versions.

-Mike