[Chicago] Python on macs

[Daniel Griffin]

TextMate is a good text editor for people who never learned how to use Vim
or Emacs. It acts more like a regular IDE editor. Its a great editor but if
you know vim or emacs you probably wont get a ton out of it. Thats my
opinion at least.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Chad Glendenin <chad at glendenin.com> wrote:

> 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
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > http://tim.jottit.com/
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