[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

[Andrew Jaffe]

Hi All,

I'm not sure whether this is the correct thread/place for this, but is 
there any official "best practice" for Python under Leopard?

I.E., should we still be using the MacPython framework build (since I 
assume that is more likely to track current python versions than the 
Apple build). Is this on the main python or macpython websites somewhere?

Thanks,

Andrew



Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> Now that there are several people that want to support Apple's build of 
> python: how do we go forward from here?
> 
> I think we should start a small project for "MacPython Addons", this 
> project will install:
> 
> * Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral binaries 
> (32-bit only at first)
> * (possibly) hotfix to ensure that you can install '-fat-' eggs on 10.5
> * /Applications/Python-2.5/IDLE.app
> 
> In there future we could add other changes, such as a 'python64' command 
> for running python in 64-bit code. IMHO this should be done only when we 
> have patches python.org tree that enable 4-way universal builds on 
> Leopard, otherwise we'd have a real risk of loosing these changes in a 
> future version.
> 
> Ronald
> 
> On 2 Jan, 2008, at 21:33, Bill Janssen wrote:
> 
>>> Even though I've been an open source developer since long before the
>>> word existed I find that I'm getting sick and tired of the reinvent-
>>> the-world attitude that is far too common in the open source community.
>>>
>>> If I am new to Python on the Mac and I've played with Apple Python a
>>> little, but as soon as I want to install one little add-on module I
>>> have to first replace the whole existing Python with something new
>>> (and not directly Apple-endorsed) I might just drop out. And at the
>>> very least it's mightily inconvenient.
>>
>> Well said, Jack!  I think supporting/fixing the Apple-supplied Python
>> should be a goal.  I certainly used the Tiger 'Apple' Python for
>> everything, living with its various foibles, and I intend to do the
>> same with Leopard.  I can see why cutting edge developers might want
>> to have other versions installed (I've got 2.6 and 3.0 on my Leopard
>> machine, for instance), but all my normal software is developed
>> against /usr/bin/python.
>>
>> Bill
> 
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