Actually, this has me looking over what I am and am not still using. Since Mac is still using Python 2.7, but Catalina is coming up and that includes Python 3.x. So I’m looking over what I use and what I don’t among my decades of scripts.
Last I looked, pretty much every system like that usurped the originals. At the time, when I looked them over, it became clear to me why they did that and it made sense. But, again, that decision was something like 10 years ago and I haven’t had time or cause to revisit it - until now. Do you know if Homebrew can provide the Python bindings for GC? Hal > On Apr 30, 2020, at 2:27 AM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > Have you investigated Homebrew vs. MacPorts? > > Just curious if the Perl issues are the same. > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Apr 30, 2020 w18d121, at 12:29 AM, Hal Vaughan <hal@hal.dance> wrote: >> >> I’ve checked out the bindings - as I mentioned in my original post, the >> problem is that using the bindings on a Mac requires MacPorts. I’ve had >> issues before, since MacPorts (and other similar systems) usurp some of the >> normal paths for things like Perl and Python. I don’t use Perl for coding >> anymore, but I have Perl scripts I’ve been using for over a decade that do >> some simple work for me. I had an important Perl script I was using that >> used a specific Perl library. I don’t remember which one it was, but when I >> added MacPorts and tried to run my script a week later, it crashed. >> >> I had no idea MacPorts, Fink, Homebrew, and similar systems usurped the >> normal system paths for scripting languages. When I installed it, and it >> took over for Perl, it put in a system without all the libraries my scripts >> used and some of the libraries that were available to me with a standard >> Perl install (libraries I had installed from CPAN) would not install in the >> new system. I had to completely remove MacPorts to get my old scripts to >> work. >> >> I’d love to use MacPorts, since it makes a lot available to me that I can’t >> easily add now (unless I start using a Linux VM), but that experience taught >> me never to trust such a system. >> >> I think it would be a lot easier for me to do this with Python bindings, but >> I still use older scripts for things I need to do once a month or once a >> year and I don’t want to risk breaking them again like they broke about a >> decade ago when I installed MacPorts. >> >> >> Hal > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
