[Chicago] MacBook Pro

[sheila miguez]

I wanted to do some stuff and ended not using the python that comes
natively on the mac.

get the mac framework http://www.python.org/download/

easy_install often works to get python packages
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall

there are some precompiled mac packages here
http://pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/index.html


Also, you can get some stuff on the mac with the fink package manager.
and you can install apt-get from fink as well, iirc. at least, I got
apt-get somehow.

Patrick lives off on planet patrick because I remember Carl trying to
explain virtual machines to him so that Patrick could try developing
in different environments, and now he is asking about boot partitions,
huh? He could leave off with worrying about partitions and play with
qemu, aka Q.app on osx.

A long time ago I did manage to install yellow dog to a partition on
my tiBook, but it never played well with the display. Which is why I
ended up reinstalling everything after wiping my disk out while trying
to change the partition size with iPartition. But I knew that was a
risk so I didn't care that much.


On Nov 12, 2007 9:36 AM, swg <sgithens at caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I was able to sympathize a bit on this particular issue, just because of
> all the problems I've ran into whenever I try to do Python work on OS X.
>
> I'm guessing folks here don't have this problem (since everyone is a
> python hacker and there seem to be a fair number of Apple Notebooks at
> meetings), but most folks I know (including myself) have a real hard
> time getting extra modules and anything that's not OOTB installed and
> working on OS X.
>
> It's almost easier sometimes to just install an OS that has a package
> manager or better python distributions and double clickable's.
>
> -s
>
>
> Pete wrote:
> > What the hell-all does this have to do with Python?!? We're usually pretty
> > loose about being off-topic here, but this is ridiculous.  This isn't your
> > personal support forum, take it elsewhere.
> >
> > On Monday November 12 2007 9:15:53 am Isaac Csandl wrote:
> >
> >> On Nov 11, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Patrick O'Hara wrote:
> >>
> >>> okay i will
> >>> thank you.
> >>> Jason
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "jason gessner" <jason at multiply.org>
> >>> To: "The Chicago Python Users Group" <chicago at python.org>
> >>> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:35 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [Chicago] MacBook Pro
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> i believe that disk utility on the mac will let you change your
> >>>> partition size without reinstalling.  check out the help before you
> >>>> try it though.  :)
> >>>>
> >> Leopard's Disk Utility can do some minor resizing, but it's not very
> >> flexible. The only thing I know of that will let you resize partitions
> >> on a Mac any way you want, non-destructively, is iPartition, which is
> >> not free, unfortunately, but it works very well (it's around $45
> >> IIRC). Currently you have to run it from Tiger, but it will safely
> >> resize Leopard-containing partitions and boot camp partitions, etc.
> >> They say they'll have a version that runs in Leopard soon.
> >>
> >> Note: it doesn't work with SoftRAID.
> >>
> >> I've heard tell of people using a Linux installer CD and parted, but
> >> can't vouch for its handling of Apple's partitioning scheme or HFS+...
> >> anybody actually tried it?
> >>
> >> --isaac
> >>
> >>
> >>>> On Nov 10, 2007 5:39 PM, Patrick O'Hara <pohara at virtualmotors.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hello all Non Windows users....
> >>>>> Question:
> >>>>> I have installed that   software / firmware/  to allow(s)
> >>>>> My Brand New macBook Pro to have multiple OS
> >>>>> running concurrently
> >>>>> But i have to partition the HDD
> >>>>> Does that mean i have re-install OS-10?
> >>>>> and then install the 2nd OS?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patrick
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>> From: "Brian Ray" <bray at sent.com>
> >>>>> To: "The Chicago Python Users Group" <chicago at python.org>
> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 4:14 PM
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Chicago] Updated wiki for tomorrow's gathering
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Nov 10, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> No.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Patrick O'Hara == friend of mine
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Brian Ray == jumps to conclusions
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> My apologies, Carl, Patrick.  Just found some of the posts a little
> >>>>>> odd :)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Brian Ray
> >>>>>> bray at sent.com
> >>>>>> http://kazavoo.com/blog
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> >>>>>>
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sheila