[Pythonmac-SIG] Pythonw and VPython and Fink

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 14, 2006, at 8:58 PM, Dethe Elza wrote:

> On 14-Feb-06, at 1:28 PM, Matthias Milczynski wrote:
>> I assume that the solution of this problem would be to somehow get a
>> fink-based pythonw, but this seems to be not avaiable.
>> Can anybody help me with this?
>
> I think the solution is for VPython to be ported to Aqua instead of
> using X11 (so it can use regular OS X Python, not Fink, among other
> good things).  Unfortunately the times I've tried to take this on,
> the VPython build system has thwarted me.  Periodically I make time
> to try again, because I'd really like to have VPython, but refuse to
> install Fink again.

If someone buys me a quad g5, I'll gladly port VPython.  The last  
time I looked into it, it just took too damn long any time I wanted  
to fiddle with the build.  I have very little patience for slow edit 
+run cycles.

-bob