Richard Cobbe wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 06:25:54PM +0000, Peter Stirling wrote:
>
>   
>> PyObjC depends on the internals of the ObjC runtime which is why 1.4 is
>> not working (on 10.5), they don't have a source drop for 2.0 - you have
>> to use svn to get the branch (I assume that this is because they don't
>> think many will be building python for themselves when they can use the
>> Apple version).
>>     
>
> Yeah, I figured it was something like that.
>
> It's a pity it's not possible to use libraries from Fink packages with
> Apple's python installation, although I suspect it would be very
> challenging, if not impossible, to remove that limitation.
>
> In any case, I was able to install Mnemosyne on Windows and try it out, at
> which point I decided I wasn't very happy with it, so I'm no longer too
> concerned about getting pyobjc built under Fink.
>
> Richard
>   
It's not completely impossible to get Fink packages to talk with the 
system's Python.  For example there's boost.1.34.systempython .  
Packages that need a Python that knows about X11 can't use the system's, 
but others may be able to.

I don't know for sure what Apple currently provides for headers to allow 
building against its Python, though--at one time the built-in Python 
didn't have _any_ headers but that's been at least partially rectified 
for more current versions of OS X.

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