[Pythonmac-SIG] Package installation

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 2, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Frederick C. Lee wrote:

> Greetings all...
>      I'm a Python neophyte and am trying to run packages on the Mac
> (now 'Tiger').   Structurally, Potentially....  Python is a great
> scripting software and great for modeling systems being developed
> into Cocoa/Obj-C.   What struck me as a big problem on the OS X is
> the lack of a universal package-management system.
>
>      I've been trying to build the Thuban™ GIS system that uses
> wxPython and other packages on my Mac.   The Setup.py routine fails
> to find critical wxPython packages causing the whole build to fail.
> I tried setting the PYTHONPATH env variable, etc.   What I'm trying
> to do, ultimately, is to create a savvy Cocoa/Obj-C GIS program based
> on Open-Source software.   But it's a royal pain to build native open-
> source code on the OS X as a model to work from.   The main problem
> is the builder (setup.py) just can find all the necessary stuff (even
> after ./configure).
>
> I'm hitting brick walls here.

Well, if it's not finding wxPython, then Thuban's build scripts are  
broken, because wxPython ships with Tiger.  Whether or not a package  
management solution existed, Thuban would still be broken.

-bob

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