[Pythonmac-SIG] Fink vs MacPorts vs Framework

Dan Ross dan at rosspixelworks.com
Tue Jun 30 19:09:55 CEST 2009


That makes a great deal of sense. I tried to mess with pygame at one 
time, but as you stated, it was such a pain to build I gave up.

Leonardo Santagada wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Dan Ross wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
>>
>> I can certainly add any packages I like to my Framework build so I don't
>> think availability of packages is a concern.
>>
>> Unless I'm misinterpreting the term "packages"? 
>
>
> Pygame for example, that is a pain to build right, is avaliable in 
> macports, the same with subversion bindings and so on.
>
> The macport version of python 2.5 and 2.6 is a framework build so it 
> is almost the same as the default leopard python sans dtrace support 
> and probably the same as python.org ones.
>
> So it is just advantages in using the macports one I think :)
>
>
> -- 
> Leonardo Santagada
> santagada at gmail.com 


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