On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Alan <alanwilter@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I found out that if before compiling my python I set
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3
and then do all the rest, then I get easy_install to work.
cool - well done.
So, somehow my python (or setuptools) need to build for "10.3".
For me it's a bug in setuptools since the function that do this check and raise the error are from setuptools package.
I've just installed python 2.7.3 standard
How did you install it? not sure what "standard" is. The build is supposed to setup distutils to do the right thing, and I'm pretty sure it does with the binaries from python.org. I will note that unless you want to re-package (i.e. with py2app) and distribute to folks with old machines, you probably don't need to support way back to 10.3 -- the "intel build" on python.org is set up for 10.5 and greater, and may avoid this issue. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov