Hi friends, I am about to update my system to Sonoma but I afraid to EigenD stop to work. Do you know about the compatibility? I using Ventura on M1 now.
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EigenD has been working fine on Sonoma on my Macs for quite a while 
(Mac mini M1 /MacBook M2)
(I think others are using as well, including @keymanpal)
so if you have it really working on Ventura, just upgrade and you shouldn’t have any issues. (at least as far as I know)
note:
generally, Id advice against beta macOS builds, or within first few weeks of a new macOS release esp. if its your only computer. this gives time for me to update, and check nothing is broken.
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Hi @thetechnobear and others
I have a Sonoma install on my M2 Macbook Pro
I thought I might dust off the Eigenharp Tau and see if I can reignite my interest in it
I’ve read through this: How to install and run EigenD in 2023+ [wiki]
From that wiki page I understood that the python2.7 on my mac would be enough. However this Mac does not seem to have come with such an installation
$ python -V
Python 3.12.5
I have installed EigenD-gpl-2.2.0-community-mac-arm and when I run this it complains of a missing /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework or the /Library equivalent
I’ve used pyenv to install python2.7. I symlinked such that I now have:
$ ls /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/versions/
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 6 28 Aug 14:25 2.7 -> 2.7.18
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 rich staff 192 28 Aug 14:31 2.7.18
After this starting eigend gives:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python' (no such file)
(among other places it tried)
After a bit of trial and error I discovered I needed to link like this inside the version:
ln -s lib/libpython2.7.dylib Python
Now starting me gives
ImportError: No module named site
Before carrying on further I’d just check that I’m going about this the right way
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have you looked at the release notes?
esp. the section on macOS 64bit support.
I talk there about installing python2.7 and also how you need to copy the python modules required - it also discusses where EigenD is expecting to find python.
(I didn’t use pyenv to install, but same principles should apply)
also Id recommend taking a look at ECMapper and MetaMorph.
you might find something a bit ‘lighter’ than EigenD is more enticing to use 
these are both based on my (low level) EigenLite software which has no dependency on python, so avoids these issues, and also has native apple silicon support.
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@thetechnobear thanks for this - as I suspected I was down the wrong rabbit hole
Lightweight sounds great - I will have a look a those other options
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