[C++-sig] Building boost.python on Mac OS X

[Bob Ippolito]

On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 23:19 America/New_York, Jonathan Brandmeyer 
wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 21:36, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
>> Wow! That's very interesting.
>> Did you try using /usr/bin/python?
>
> No.  Based on some messages in the Python-Mac SIG archives that pointed
> towards serious brain damage in the Apple-shipped Python, we have been
> distributing our package against the fink-distributed Python 2.2.x.
> Numeric (which our module requires) does not install with the stock
> Python's distutils, so I haven't really looked at it further.

Yes, Apple's Python 2.2.0 is brain damaged.

>> Now I am beginning to wonder if it is better to work with a framework 
>> or a
>> non-framework build. I am not an Apple user. Could someone more 
>> experienced
>> with OS X name some pros and cons?
>
> In our case, several extra dependencies are supplied by fink, so we are
> installing our module in that environment.  There hasn't been any
> compelling reason for us to do otherwise.  Last time I checked (May?),
> the Python-Mac SIG was going to try to work with the Darwin developers
> with the goal of getting a high-quality version of Python included in
> the next version of OSX.  If that goes through, than we will probably
> install into the stock Python.

Apple is distributing Python 2.3.0 as a framework build with MacOS X 
10.3.  It's even usable.

-bob