[Pythonmac-SIG] PIL for OS-X

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 5 Apr, 2008, at 1:40, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There's been a discussion over on the Image-sig about what the PIL web
> site should tell folks that want PIL for OS-X. There have simply been
> too many "I'm having trouble building PIL on OS-X" questions.
>
> I've suggested that the PIL website include binaries for the "best"
> versions of Python to support. Fredrik can't build them, but hopefully
> someone on this list can do it for him when a new PIL version comes  
> out
> -- the 1.1.6 binary on pythonmac.org/packages is a good start.
>
> However, it's not so simple, 'cause of all the Python's out there.  
> So my
> question is:
>
> Can we build a single binary installer for PIL that will work with  
> BOTH
> Apple's Python2.5 that comes with OS-X 10.5 and MacPython2.5,  
> Universal
> Framework Build for OS-X 10.3.9 and above.

Not really, you'll have to provide two installers.

BTW. What I'd like to see is a collection of recipes for building  
packages like
this. That is, a Makefile/shell-script/python-script/... that will  
build all dependencies,
the package itself and an installer.

That's the most annoying issue with the pythonmac.org repository: some
packages are non-trivial to rebuild (such as PyOpenGL 2.x) and there  
is no
indication whatsover of how they were build.

That's not very interesting for users, until it is time to build a  
binary for the next
version and someone has to reinvent the proper build proces.

Ronald
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