On 9/20/06, Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked the original question and I want to thank folks for > contributing answers. > > On Sep 20, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > > > > A major conceptual difference between MacPorts/Fink and MacPython > > is that the the first two are projects to use unix software on the > > mac, while MacPython is more focused on fitting in with the OS. > > Here is the statement that puzzles me the most. OSX is Unix. What > differences are you referring to?
MacPorts makes OS X feel like a BSD. Fink makes OS X feel like Debian. OS X generally feels more like NeXTStep. These are very different things. > I long for the day when I can just grab the latest tarball, untar, > configure, make and make install and it builds and fits in with OSX. You can, if you change configure to "configure --enable-framework". Though you may also want to specify "--enable-universalsdk"... and you might want to use the dist scripts to automatically do all of this and download and build universal versions of the dependencies. Though you're better off just getting a binary, because they you don't have to think. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
