Mymy... This thing is bloody hard to install.

"Python setup.py build develop" is not enough for kiva. You have to go in the directory and call "python build_kiva" manually. But I figured that out.

geo doesn't properly install with setup.py (the data file are not copied), so you have to use the build_inplace.sh script.

Finally it seems the requirement on wx has the wrong version: I have 2.6.3 installed and running main.py gives me:

File "/home/varoquau/Projects/block_canvas/enthought.block_canvas_0.1/enthought/block_canvas/ui/search_editor.py", line 1, in <module> from wx import SearchCtrl, EVT_TEXT

With wx2.8 the thing works !

Pfff !

The demo was very well chosen so as not to show the problems with the beast :->. I am not too sure I will demo it to my friends, it seems too fragile.

I am attaching the script I use to run the beast from a site-package dir not in my PYTHONPATH (in order to be able to run mayavi at the same time).

Ga?l