On May 13, 9:46 am, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Brian,

> I just pinged the pythonmac-sig group about why and when a framework
> build is actually needed.  A while back I created an spkg for qt/pyqt
> and I remember that I needed to do a framework build to get it to
> work.  My recollection is that if you want Python to be able to do
> anything with the native Mac GUI, it needs to be a framework build.

Ok.

> If this is indeed the case, I think it would be a great idea to have
> the Sage python be a framework build and I have an older spkg around
> somewhere that does this without any bugs (that I know of ;-)).  

As is Sage doesn't even build if you do a straight up framework build.
This can and will be fixed, but if I have learned one thing about
FrameWorks on OSX is to avoid them whenever possible, i.e that
absolute crap issue with the IOKit and libpng has scared me for
life ;)

Cheers,

Michael
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