On Sep 20, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > 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.
NeXT is where I came to this party from. I don't have a "Mac" background. > >> 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. OK, maybe I'll try it. Lord knows that Ruby build easily enough. My comments now are more for Apple than you guys _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
