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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
