[Edu-sig] The fate of vpython

[Dave Reed]

On Oct 10, 2006, at 6:54 PM, ajsiegel at optonline.net wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dethe Elza
> Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:28 am
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] The fate of vpython
> To: davelist at mac.com
> Cc: edu-sig at python.org, John Zelle
>
>> Dave wrote:
>>
>>>> Just curious, is PyOpenGL easy to install for both Mac and
>>>> Windows? I know
>>>> it's dead simple on most Linux distributions. I think it's
>> pretty
>>>> easy for
>>>> Windows, but have no experience at all on the Mac.
>>>
>>> Someone has made binaries for it (and a number of other Python
>> add-
>>> ons) at:
>>>
>>> http://pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/index.html
>>
>> Which makes it as easy to install on OS X as on Windows.
>> Building it
>> from source can be troublesome, but is far more tractable in my
>> experience than VPython.
>

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>
> You install pyopengl on the Mac.  What windowing system are you  
> running it on???


It does need anything else - using glut it creates a native window on  
the Mac - it doesn't require X11.

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Dave