Bill, EPD is installed in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/6.0/
David On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Bill Coderre wrote: > On Jan 7, 2010, at 10:13 AM, David Arnold wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've installed the latest EPD 6.0 on a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard from >> www.enthought.com. I'd like to give pygame a try, but I am unsure as to how >> it should be installed on my environment. >> >> On www.pygame.org, I did see some installation instructions for Snow >> Leopard, but these depended on Macpython, a different distribution. >> >> Has anyone installed pygame in the Enthought distribution that could lend >> some advice? > > I can't, since I need a login. Since one is supposed to pay for this service, > I suspect you can contact their customer support and find out how to use > PyGame with their distro. > > 1) Contact Enthought. If they're going to be creating a huge pile of Python, > PyGame should be one of the things they install. > > Is PyGame already part of EPD? If not, what the heck is wrong with them? > > PyGame is an awesome SDK -- takes like 30 lines of code to make a simple game! > > > > > 2) PyGame installs into /Library/Frameworks/Python... which is where > MacPython installs stuff. MacPython installs there, as opposed to Mac OS X's > "system" copy of Python, because > a) It doesn't take THAT much disk space, and > b) It (sort of) prevents (some) badness from screwing up Mac OS X's system > software. > > Does EPD install into /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework? I bet it does. > > I can't get to their distro, so I can't tell, but you can tell easily by > using a shareware called Pacifist. You literally drop the EPD installer on > the Pacifist icon, and it will show you where everything is installing. (If > you'd rather do the same thing without downloading stuff, type man lsbom into > a terminal window. (lsbom -f /path/to/Foo.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom is usually > what you want.) > > Also, and this is top secret, so don't tell anyone, most installer packages > are "bundles" which means they're really folders in disguise. You can > CMD-CLICK on a bundle and use the contextual menu to "Show Contents" -- and > then double-click the Archive.pax.gz file to expand everything and look at > what gets installed where. > > Mac installer packages that are not bundles are called "flat file installers" > and pkgutil --expand can open them up. > > > 3) Worst case, you can install MacPython and Pygame and various other python > libraries yet again, and have THREE copies on your Mac -- but it's only > wasting MAYBE 200 MB at the most. (OK, so that's not so great, but hey, at > least you can use PyGame.)
