Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which distribution?

On 9/25/06, John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/09/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/25/06, John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, let me ask a different question: What do I lose if I go to macports? > > GUI apps, support from here (very few people here can hel

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which distribution?

On 26/09/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/25/06, John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, let me ask a different question: What do I lose if I go to macports? > GUI apps, support from here (very few people here can help you with > macports), universal binaries, creating redis

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

On 9/25/06, Russell E Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 5:26 PM -0400 2006-09-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I'm very interested in this and would be happy to help with testing. > >I teach Python at the college level using John Zelle's Python book > >(it uses Tk for simple GUI programs). Most o

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Fix Mac page again?

> I've filed a bug for the website a while back and got no response at > all. There were some problems with the main 2.5 pages as well, is > looks like almost nobody knows how the new site works :-( I've had some luck changing those pages, I'll see what I can do. Bill

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

At 5:26 PM -0400 2006-09-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm very interested in this and would be happy to help with testing. >I teach Python at the college level using John Zelle's Python book >(it uses Tk for simple GUI programs). Most of the programs run fine, >but some of the more complex ones

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

At 5:05 PM +0200 2006-09-23, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >...I'm -0 on adding support for DMGs. Using a DMG doesn't buy >enough over a zip to warrant spending time on it. I was offering my own time. I've found them helpful for two reasons: - They can be reliably opened. I used to distribute my app as

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

On 9/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > > > > > > I see what you mean about different installations. I think the > > following > > might work better: > > - Always modify _tkinter.so to point to Tcl/Tk 8.4 in > >/Libra

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > I see what you mean about different installations. I think the > following > might work better: > - Always modify _tkinter.so to point to Tcl/Tk 8.4 in >/Library/Frameworks. > This will fall back to the built in /System/Library/Frame

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which distribution?

On 9/25/06, John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/09/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It depends on what you want to use it for. Most likely, you want > > Python from python.org, but some extensions are a lot easier to > > install with macports (particularly X11 based stuff).

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which distribution?

On 25/09/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It depends on what you want to use it for. Most likely, you want > Python from python.org, but some extensions are a lot easier to > install with macports (particularly X11 based stuff). > > Nothing stops you from having both if you need them.

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I noted in a comment in that bugreport I'm not to keen on that. I > don't mind shipping the script ( or a GUI version of it) in the > application folder for users that want to switch to a newer Tk, or > even shi

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

On 9/25/06, Russell E Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 5:05 PM +0200 2006-09-23, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >...I'm -0 on adding support for DMGs. Using a DMG doesn't buy > >enough over a zip to warrant spending time on it. > > I was offering my own time. I've found them helpful for two reasons:

[Pythonmac-SIG] building statically with bdist_mpkg

I've looked around for some docs on how to do this, but was unsuccessful: How do you build statically using bdist_mpkg? At the moment, I am building manually using python setup.py config -L ../staticlibs build install where staticlibs holds all of the libraries I need. I dont see how I can

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] on a tangent from new icons

On Sep 25, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:Do you think it would be possible to get an mdimporter included inthe python.org distribution?  What's lacking for that to happen?It would be good to have an importer for python Adding an mdimporter should be possible. What's lacking is someone th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] on a tangent from new icons

On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Jacob Rus wrote: Hi again everyone, So a few months later, I started wondering again about some of these things. On April 22, Ronald Oussoren wrote: On 21-apr-2006, at 22:44, Jacob Rus wrote: While we're adding a bunch of icons to Mac Python, and editing Info.pl

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] on a tangent from new icons

Hi again everyone, So a few months later, I started wondering again about some of these things. On April 22, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > On 21-apr-2006, at 22:44, Jacob Rus wrote: >> While we're adding a bunch of icons to Mac Python, and editing >> Info.plist files, and so on, I think we might as

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Wiki suggestions

And this page is all python: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWikiEngines David On 24/09/2006, at 11:35 PM, Perry Smith wrote: > I'm curious if anyone on this list has either a suggestion for some > Python based Wiki software or a pointer to a site that can help me > in my search. > > Th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Fix Mac page again?

On Monday, September 25, 2006, at 08:26AM, Nicholas Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can someone fix the download link on this page? > > > >It's the one marked "an installer for the latest version". If the 2.5 >installer is compatible with 10.3-10.3.8, the