Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Now that there are several people that want to support Apple's build of python: how do we go forward from here? I think we should start a small project for MacPython Addons, this project will install: * Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral binaries (32-bit only

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Andrew Jaffe
Hi All, I'm not sure whether this is the correct thread/place for this, but is there any official best practice for Python under Leopard? I.E., should we still be using the MacPython framework build (since I assume that is more likely to track current python versions than the Apple build). Is

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3 Jan, 2008, at 15:18, Andrew Jaffe wrote: Hi All, I'm not sure whether this is the correct thread/place for this, but is there any official best practice for Python under Leopard? This is the right thread for that (albeith one with a lame subject). I.E., should we still be using the

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Andrew Jaffe
Ronald Oussoren wrote: On 3 Jan, 2008, at 15:18, Andrew Jaffe wrote: I'm not sure whether this is the correct thread/place for this, but is there any official best practice for Python under Leopard? I.E., should we still be using the MacPython framework build (since I assume that is more

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Jack Jansen
On 3 jan 2008, at 14:22, Ronald Oussoren wrote: Now that there are several people that want to support Apple's build of python: how do we go forward from here? I think we should start a small project for MacPython Addons, this project will install: * Hotfix for distutils to ensure

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Christopher Barker
Ronald Oussoren wrote: I think we should start a small project for MacPython Addons, This looks very promising. Thanks for getting it going. this project will install: * Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral binaries (32-bit only at first) * (possibly) hotfix to

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread William Kyngesburye
On Jan 3, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: I think that for true end users Idle is the only serious omission. The first one is really for developers only, and the second one doesn't really become important until such fat eggs become widely available (which they are not right

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Bill Janssen
* Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral binaries (32-bit only at first) Is there a bug # for this? Possibly with a patch that we could start with :-? Bill ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Tobias Rodäbel
On Jan 3, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: I want to do whatever keeps my live as easy as possible, either an umbrella package with small hotfix packages or one package that installs all hotfixes. I also want to keep the addon package as small as possible and don't want to end

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3 Jan, 2008, at 19:28, Tobias Rodäbel wrote: On Jan 3, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: I want to do whatever keeps my live as easy as possible, either an umbrella package with small hotfix packages or one package that installs all hotfixes. I also want to keep the addon

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Robin Dunn
Christopher Barker wrote: * What about people installing upgrades to packages? IIUC, the Apple python puts stuff in a dir that is before site-packages, so if you install a newer version of a package that Apple already had, it won't be used without sys.path manipulations. I think numpy was

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Leopard easy_install chokes on appscript egg

2008-01-03 Thread has
On 31 Dec 2007, at 14:09, Ronald Oussoren wrote: [cc.d to Bob for his info] That's a buglet in Python, fixed in what will be 2.5.2. Apple's python doesn't do universal binaries and setuptools doesn't know that an 'fat' egg will do on a 'ppc' or 'i386' platform. After further poking, it

[Pythonmac-SIG] Possibly OT: Get path to icon file for PIL?

2008-01-03 Thread Kevin Walzer
I'm looking for a Python API that will return the path to an icon file which I can then read via PIL and display in my application. The available API's that I can find--NSWorkspace and IconServices--provide various hooks to obtaining and displaying an icon, but neither appears to support

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Possibly OT: Get path to icon file for PIL?

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3 Jan, 2008, at 23:08, Kevin Walzer wrote: I'm looking for a Python API that will return the path to an icon file which I can then read via PIL and display in my application. The available API's that I can find--NSWorkspace and IconServices--provide various hooks to obtaining and