[Chicago] Anyone using MacPorts Python exclusively?

[Tom Tobin]

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?

Sorry, no; it might be *acceptable*, but not alright.  ;-)  I've used
MacPorts quite a bit, and its dependency handling is *atrocious*.  The
moment versions matter, MacPorts ceases being able to make intelligent
decisions.  Fink, on the other hand, tends to be awful about keeping
its packages up-to-date.  I loathe both, and I've been giving
considerable thought as of late to simply running all my development
out of an Ubuntu image under VMware Fusion.  :-/