On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Robert Bobbson <rbobb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > One thing you are going to find out is that Apple isn't the quickest on the > draw with updating things like Python. It's > only recently that they made a move to anything near the 2.6 line, so I > have long since given up on using the stock python if I'm interested in > being up to date version-wise. > > With some reservation, I'll > recommend using something like macports to manage these things as they > are maintained up to date, and it takes care of dependencies and other > fun things like library paths, etc. MacPorts sets things up in /opt. > > The reason for the > reservation is that at the time I built PyQt and all the supporting > packages, none of them appeared to have a binary version available for Snow > Leopard (this was ~2 weeks ago now). So, that meant the source had to be > downloaded and built from scratch. That took about 12 hours on a 2 > year old MacBook Pro. > That didn't include the hour or two of tweaking the source packages to > get around some errors and warnings that were slowing down the process > even further. It brought back warm fuzzy feelings for the Gentoo box > that I just retired a little while ago. > > As those source only > options are replaced with binary packages, you should see install > performance comparable to Debian/Ubuntu/RedHat and their package > management tools, with all the corresponding benefits of having a > framework keep track of versions and dependencies. > > Even if you don't use macports for pyqt, you might consider it for managing a > whole slew of other apps, just like you would on a linux box or a > windows+cygwin box.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have been using Gentoo for about 5 years and Ubuntu for 2, and am trying macports now. _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt