Hi, Alexander Limi wrote:
I'm working on documenting Deliverance / xdv for use with Plone. It has lxml as a dependency, and I have run into a serious issue:
On Mac OS X, we can't assume that people have Xcode (ie. gcc and friends) installed, thus we can't really compile lxml on those computers, not even using the staticlxml[1] recipe.
I see that there are binary eggs for Windows, is there a special reason why there are no binary eggs for OS X, or is it just a matter of not having the infrastructure to make it available?
The main problem is that many MacOS-X users have some kind of package distribution like macports installed, which usually has some distribution specific setup/dependencies/paths/whatever. OTOH, those users won't be the target for a binary distribution of lxml anyway.
Happy to help find a solution if it's just a matter of locating a reliable way to get it compiled every time there is a new release.
Yes, I'd be happy if we could get a static binary egg for each release. I don't have a Mac myself (and I'm definitely not a Mac user), so contributions are welcome. http://codespeak.net/lxml/build.html#building-lxml-on-macos-x Stefan