Greetings all...
I'm a Python neophyte and am trying to run packages on the Mac
(now 'Tiger'). Structurally, Potentially.... Python is a great
scripting software and great for modeling systems being developed
into Cocoa/Obj-C. What struck me as a big problem on the OS X is
the lack of a universal package-management system.
I've been trying to build the Thuban™ GIS system that uses
wxPython and other packages on my Mac. The Setup.py routine fails
to find critical wxPython packages causing the whole build to fail.
I tried setting the PYTHONPATH env variable, etc. What I'm trying
to do, ultimately, is to create a savvy Cocoa/Obj-C GIS program based
on Open-Source software. But it's a royal pain to build native open-
source code on the OS X as a model to work from. The main problem
is the builder (setup.py) just can find all the necessary stuff (even
after ./configure).
I'm hitting brick walls here.
Ric.
Frustrated Mac developer & Oceanographer-wanna-be.
On Apr 18, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>> Can users be trusted to put Python packages in the right place on
>>> their own? If they have multiple versions of Python installed? I
>>> would say no.
>>>
>> They do manage for applications, so why wouldn't they for Python
>> packages?
>>
>
> No, they don't. Mac users put Applications all over the place on
> their systems. In fact, one of the main advantages of the self
> contained application bundle is that you can do exactly that: put
> it anywhere, and you can click on it to run it. The old Macintosh
> was specifically designed to support that kind of behavior. They
> advertised the fact that files could be moved all over the place
> without disrupting the system (this wasn't entirely true, when it
> came to the system folder, but it was a lot more true than with
> Unix or DOS/Windows). That legacy lives on. If you don't give Mac
> users an installer, many, many, people will drop a bundle some
> arbitrary place, and expect it to work.
>
> That being said, better uninstallation and version managing would
> be great. This is one place that Apple is WAY behind the Linux
> distros. They all have package managing systems, many of them
> pretty darn nice.
>
> I'd love to see some kind of package versioning management built
> into things from the Python side, one that will work across
> platforms. wxPython has a pretty good approach:
>
> http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/MultiVersionInstalls
>
> -Chris
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