[Chicago] Anyone using MacPorts Python exclusively?

[Milan Andric]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Chris McAvoy <chris.mcavoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Macports (macports.org, formerly darwinports) seems to have come a
> long way since I last looked at it.  It still seems like a little bit
> of a all or nothing approach.  Anyone using the MacPorts Python
> exclusively?  I'm on Leopard nowadays, and am liking their version of
> 2.5, but I like that I can get a bunch of difficult to compile modules
> (I'm looking at you lxml) via MacPorts easily.  The only off-putting
> bit is that you really have to go all in.
>
> Anyone all in?  Anyone want to hold my hand and tell me it will be alright?
>

I'm all in. I've been using Macports on OSX 10.4 in my production
environment for about 18 months.  It's helped immensely with upgrades
and well, managing packages. I used it to upgrade to from 2.4 to 2.5
quite smoothly about 3 months ago. On my dev environment I use 10.5
and 2.5.   There's just one or two libs I have to handle by hand.  I
couldn't live without it, but I use it for more than just python, like
all the great stuff out there.

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Milan