[Pythonmac-SIG] State of Python on the Mac

[Bob Ippolito]

On Monday, Mar 3, 2003, at 04:41 America/New_York, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On Monday, Mar 3, 2003, at 04:09 Europe/Amsterdam, Pete Versteegen 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> You seem to imply having a problem with Fink.  Could you elaborate on 
>> the
>> reservations you have about Fink?
>
> I'm not 100% happy with fink either. I'm using it now on one machine, 
> because it's the only reasonable way
> to get readline support in Python at the moment (not to mention latex 
> so I can finally work on
> the Python documentation myself), but it's already been breaking the
> Python build in subtle ways. Nothing serious, but just a bit of work 
> each time. Every time I install
> something new with fink something else will be pulled in along, which 
> is then used for the Python build
> but which has subtly different header files or something. And I'm not 
> really aware I installed
> a new libncurses, just because some other fink package needs it...

Well, for TeX without Fink, I've always used TexShop -- 
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html

And for readline without Fink, have you seen 
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/readline.framework?  I know bill 
bumgardner put together a package to build readline for the stock 
jaguar python using this framework (but www.friday.com is down).  
Perhaps this nasty little path can make it into the Python ./configure 
script or something?

-bob