[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

[Bob Ippolito]

On 9/20/06, Robert Love <rblove at airmail.net> wrote:
> I asked the original question and I want to thank folks for
> contributing answers.
>
> On Sep 20, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> >
> > A major conceptual difference between MacPorts/Fink and MacPython
> > is that the the first two are projects to use unix software on the
> > mac, while MacPython is more focused on fitting in with the OS.
>
> Here is the statement that puzzles me the most.  OSX is Unix.  What
> differences are you referring to?

MacPorts makes OS X feel like a BSD. Fink makes OS X feel like Debian.
OS X generally feels more like NeXTStep. These are very different
things.

> I long for the day when I can just grab the latest tarball, untar,
> configure, make and make install and it builds and fits in with OSX.

You can, if you change configure to "configure --enable-framework".
Though you may also want to specify "--enable-universalsdk"... and you
might want to use the dist scripts to automatically do all of this and
download and build universal versions of the dependencies.

Though you're better off just getting a binary, because they you don't
have to think.

-bob