Lou,
Thanks for the summary, you beat me to it. I'm a bit surprised that you
didn't already know this -- I thought is was made pretty darn clear that
you needed to re-install all your add-on packages when you installed an
upgraded Python. In fact, that's one of the reasons' not to use Apple's
Python -- when they upgrade, it you'll need to re-install everything.
I guess we still need to work on the docs.
> Many thanks to Bob Ippolito for supplying those packages.
Bob built many (most?) of them, but some were built by others, and given
to Bob to put on the site. I say this because:
> Reinstalling the kinds package. I assume you already have the package
> in your Python files directory. You need to reinstall it after you
> upgrade to Python 2.4. Do this by opening the terminal, cd to the kinds
> folder and type
>
> sudo python setup.py install
Why don't you build a package out of this? If you install Py2app, you
can run: bdist_mpkg and you'll get a nice package that you can give to
Bob to put on the site.
When we get the released version of the Universal binary, I hope many
folks, like you and I, will make packages and contribute them. I think
a large collection of ready to install packages for OS-X will do a lot
to lower the barrier to entry for new Python users.
> Create the file kinds.pth with the
> single line in it,
This is a bit odd. These days, most packages are built to not need a
*.pth file. I think all you need to do is have a __init__.py file in the
package directory. I'd encourage the kinds developers to update their setup.
by the way, what is kinds? the word "kinds" is so common I'm having a
hard time finding it with Google.
-Chris
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