pyspec is hosted on PyPi under the name pyspec. This version is never “bleading edge” but is provided to allow easy installation. To install pyspec using easy_install, from the command line run:
easy_install pyspec
To force an upgrade run (if pyspec is already installed):
easy_install -U pyspec
Note: you can install a user copy by running:
easy_install -U --user pyspec
just remember to set your PYTHONPATH environmental variable!
To obtain the latest bleading edge version of pyspec, it is best to check out a working copy using the subversion control system. For an introduction to SVN please see the SVN book here.
The SVN source is hosted on sourceforge and can be obtained by checking out a working copy, and building in the standard python way:
svn co https://pyspec.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pyspec/trunk pyspec
cd pyspec
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
which is of course for unix type systems. Building of extension modules is handled by the setup file setup.cfg.<patform> where <platform> is the type of computer you are building for. For example the setup.cfg.darwin (for Mac OS X systems) is shown below.
#
# PYSPEC setup.cfg file
#
# $Id: setup.cfg.darwin 206 2011-04-30 15:03:47Z stuwilkins $
#
[global]
verbose=1
[ctrans]
build = True
usethreads = True
[sginfo]
build = True
[levmar]
build = False
For each subheading the build = directive is used to switch on and off the building of each extension module. By default on windows systems, none of the extension modules are built to enable easy installation of the pyspec package.