Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows roughly when to expect a pip-installable version of pygplates that is compatible with Python 3.13 on MacOS?
It will happen once Macports supports the boost library for Python 3.13. I think it’s being held up by their transition to NumPy 2.
Hopefully it’s relatively soon. In the meantime you can install pygplates on conda for Python 3.13.
A note for the record: This is different than this post where we were going to wait for Macports to support NumPy 2 (so that pyGPlates would work on NumPy 1.x and 2.x). But turns out we didn’t need to wait. That’s because pyGPlates uses the NumPy C-API (not boost-python-numpy which comes from Macports). So using NumPy 1.x (in boost-python-numpy) on Macports was fine - we could still separately install NumPy 2.x as a Python package (when building pyGPlates). But pyGPlates still uses boost-python (ie, without the -numpy), and that’s only supported for Python versions <= 3.12 (on Macports). It appears that Python 3.13 requires NumPy 2.1 (hence the hold-up while Macports transitions to NumPy 2 for Python 3.13).