[Chicago] Python on macs

[Chad Glendenin]

I just got a MacBook Pro that I haven't even opened yet, but in theory
it's going to be my primary workstation for Python and Django
development. Is the upshot of all the psycopg2 trouble that I should
just punt and use Mac OS X as a shiny, expensive front-end to an
Ubuntu VM? If so, is VirtualBox sufficient, or would you recommend
using one of the closed-source VMs like Parallels or VMware?

Not to get too far off topic, but while we're talking about doing dev
on Macs, what's the big deal with TextMate? I've been happily using
Vim for years, and after looking over Chris Webber's shoulder, I've
been thinking about trying to live in Emacs for a while (for smarter
indentation, org mode, emacs-client sessions, etc.), but I'm wondering
if I'm missing out on something. And whatever it is that TextMate
does, couldn't we just implement it in gedit with Python plugins? To
me, gedit looks like TextMate, except open-source and without the cult
of DHH.

ccg


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Brennan Todd <brentodd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was able to get psycopg2 to compile with macports... after it downloaded
> and compiled its own version of python 2.6, and postgres, and about 200
> other things. It was the most ridiculous thing I had seen in a long time,
> but it worked...
>
> I've still got the .dmg file if you're interested.
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Chris McAvoy <chris.mcavoy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> As of late, I'm running Python in an Ubuntu VMWare image.  Mainly
>> because psycopg2 won't compile via easy_install or pip, and I don't
>> want to spend any time figuring it out.  I'm on Snow Leopard.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Tim Head <betatim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks everyone for their helpful advice.
>> >
>> > I followed (more or less) Jesse's ideas on setting up a virtualenv as
>> > the "default" python to use so that I can do what ever crazy thing I
>> > want and not break the default python (and packages). Also means it is
>> > easy to make a new virtualenv and try out lots of packages during a
>> > rainy day and then just delete the whole thing to get rid of it again.
>> >
>> > I will try homebrew as a package manager.
>> >
>> > I'll also compile py3.x by hand with --prefix ;)
>> >
>> > Tim
>> >
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