[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Oct 2, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>>
>> PyObjC, wxPython, Tk, all need to be installed correctly before  
>> they can
>> be used.

On 10.4 Tk is already installed and could be used, it has appearently  
has issues but an egg frontend could be kept simple enough to work  
around those.

But that isn't really an issue anyway, the setuptools frontend could,  
and probably should, be build as a (semi-) standalone application  
bundle. That way you can include all libraries you want into the  
application bundle without depending on what the user wants to have  
installed.

>>
>> Maybe we could use the wxPython that Apple delivers (do they  
>> deliver a
>> usable Tk?), or maybe it could be written in ObjC instead of  
>> Python (NO!
>> say it isn't so!) Another option is to make sure that the MacPython
>> installer installs something usable by default -- PyObjC,  
>> wxPython, TK,
>> or???
>>
>> Other thoughts?
>
> It's not a great idea to put a front-end on easy_install at this
> point. It would be an enormous amount of work for very little gain.
> It's also not at all designed such that it's easy to break what it's
> doing up into little chunks so that you can properly display status
> and whatnot from a GUI.

I somewhat agree with this, anyone that want to build a frontend for  
easy_install should be prepared to work with PJE to enhance  
setuptools/easy_install to make it easier to write a frontend to  
setuptools.  Writing the actual UI is pretty easy.

Ronald
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