[Pythonmac-SIG] Fink, DarwinPorts vs py2app

[Charles Hartman]

On Feb 8, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>> My impression of fink (and darwinports may be different, I'll be 
>> checking that out) is that it's kind of an all-or-nothing 
>> proposition. If you want a Linux-like system, running in parallel to 
>> OS-X, on the same kernel, you'll be quite happy. If you want it to 
>> feel like it's part of OS-X you won't. Being a Linux geek, you'd 
>> think I'd be happy with the former, but frankly, If I want Linux,. 
>> I'll run Linux (and I do). On OS-X I want OS-X, and, more 
>> importantly, folks I work with, that I give apps too, don't want to 
>> have anything to do with Linux, command lines, X11, or figuring out 
>> apt-get.
>
> Darwinports is a lot less all-or-nothing.  I have very few things 
> activated from darwinports at a given time and it works and 
> interoperates with the rest of the stuff I have rather well.
>
>> I really think we can get a complete set of OS-X friendly packages 
>> out for all to use. it's really not all that hard, once you've got 
>> the tricks figured out. We'll have a MUCH easier time getting folks 
>> to use python on OS-X if we have nice friendly binaries for them to 
>> install.
>
> I agree.

You can hardly guess how good the above music sounds to the ears of the 
Terminal-ly challenged & similar Mac-hacking persons like myself. I 
write goofy linguistic-research apps, I don't do systems stuff. People 
like me love Python too.

Charles Hartman