On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Andrew Jaffe wrote: > I originally posted this in a different thread, but I realize that the > first post was about 10 levels deep, so possibly ignored by people who > might care or be able to help (or possibly just ignored as a dumb > question). Anyway, is there a 'best' way to install python packages > on a > mac nowadays? It seems that there at least three possibilities: > > - plain old setup.py install > - bdist_mpkg > - eggs (in which case I realize I'm not sure I know exactly > *how* to > do this) > > I've been using bdist_mpkg a lot recently, but this discussion is > making > me think it may not the preferred way. Any opinions? (There was one > answer in favor of plain-old setup.py install.)
Whichever one works. setup.py install works for everything, but you might need to specify --install-scripts in order to make the scripts get installed to a useful location. bdist_mpkg does that for you. Some packages are dumb and don't really use distutils, like Twisted, so bdist_mpkg doesn't work everywhere. setuptools is a bit more sensitive to distutils abuse and definitely doesn't like Twisted, but also doesn't like some other packages like Zope.Interface (IIRC). If you want to learn more about setuptools from a user's perspective, read the EasyInstall documentation. If you want to learn about it from a developer's perspective, read the setuptools and PkgResources documentation. http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources Personally, I've been using setuptools for everything lately because it deals with a few issues like dependencies and development builds. It's not yet ready for everyone all the time, but it's clearly the future. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
