[Pythonmac-SIG] Fink, DarwinPorts vs py2app

[Michael Maibaum]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:37:01AM -0800, Chris Barker wrote:
>Michael Maibaum wrote:
>>FWIW, DarwinPorts has 'aqua' variants of many packages,
>
>cool. I'll have to look into which ones, thought I'll start with a 
>question: wxPython?

X11 - wxWidgets and wxWindows in dports build aqua by default, but  python doesn't.

>
> > and if you want
>>them for something that doesn't have one, either add the variant and 
>>send off the patch, or make a request.
>
>>As for Python. As soon as there is a framework version of Python that 
>>can be installed via a destroot for packaging, I'll add it to 
>>DarwinPorts. Or if someone can figure out how to hack the current 
>>version to do it...
>>
>>similarly I have an Portfile for an X11 version of SciPy, and an adapted 
>>one for aqua - but the inability to install Python Framework via a 
>>destroot is a blocker for that.
>>DarwinPorts aims to integrate where practical - so we depend on our own 
>>version of Python because the OS version is broken (as the fix packages 
>>available show) and because we don't want to slap cruft into the main 
>>part of the filesystem.
>
>Well, I didn't follow all that, but it sounds like the gist is what I 
>suspected:
>
>1) The DarwinPorts python packages don't use Apple's Python
>2) The DarwinPorts python doesn't play well with Aqua.
>3) This may be fixed in the future, if someone can figure out how and 
>put in the time.
>4) I can use DarwinPorts to install libs needed by python packages, and 
>use them with Apple's python.
>
>Have I got that right?

Yep.

Michael