[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing wxPython with ActivePython and OSX

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 24, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:

>
> On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
>> Charles Hartman wrote:
>>> I did the "obvious":
>>> 	sudo mv /usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.6.3.2rc1 /usr/local/
>>> lib/ wxPython-unicode-2.6.3.2
>>> and it seems to work. Did I create havoc somewhere else?
>>
>> probably not, but in general, you should use a sym link, rather
>> than a re-name:
>>
>> sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.6.3.2rc1 /usr/local/
>> lib/wxPython-unicode-2.6.3.2
>>
>>
>> however, it looks like you're installing the new Universal build of
>> wxPython into ActivePython. It may well work, but I think the
>> Universal wxPython was built with and designed for the
>> UniversalBuild at:
>>
>
> Something is very screwy here. Because I've been waiting for wxPython
> before trying the Universal, I followed links, not from here, but
> from wxpython.org/download.php ("You will need the Universal
> MacPython available from Python.org") which took me to www.python.org/
> download/releases/2.4.3 where there is a link to "Universal-
> MacPython-2.4.3.dmg". I assumed I was getting Ronald's build. Is it
> ActiveState's??? Perhaps -- to put it calmly -- there should a note
> to this effect?

Do not download from python.org.  Unless they've updated it recently,  
that's the unoptimized (about twice as slow on either platform) older  
version with a couple errata.

> Can I now just download the one from pythonmac.org ("Universal-
> MacPython-2.4.3-2006-04-07.dmg") and install it, and expect things to
> work?

That's the most recent Unviersal Python, but I'm not sure if you can  
expect wxPython to work or not :)

-bob