Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

Brad, there's only one potential problem and that's the PPC/Intel issue. If you have a PowerPC mac (or you can live with running Python under Rosetta on an Intel Mac) I would first try to download a binary 2.3.X. My guess is that there's a 90% chance that it works. The issue might be findin

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5? (Brad Knowles)

Brad Knowles wrote: > I know you hear about these version issues all the time (I have done > a bit of searching of the archives ;-), but I think this might be > the first case I'm aware of where someone is trying to backport > Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5, as opposed to trying to get a newer

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

Jack Jansen wrote: > there's only one potential problem and that's the PPC/Intel issue. If > you have a PowerPC mac (or you can live with running Python under > Rosetta on an Intel Mac) I would first try to download a binary 2.3.X. > My guess is that there's a 90% chance that it works. The issu

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

Jack Jansen wrote: > there's only one potential problem and that's the PPC/Intel issue. If > you have a PowerPC mac (or you can live with running Python under > Rosetta on an Intel Mac) I would first try to download a binary 2.3.X. There's a problem here. If you go to the python.org page for

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

Brad Knowles wrote: > So, it looks like I have no choice but to try to do a source install of > Python 2.3.7. Well, ran into my first problem. Actually, it's the same one that was reported by "j47" in the thread at . S

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

Brad Knowles wrote: > Well, ran into my first problem. Actually, it's the same one that was > reported by "j47" in the thread at > . Actually, the first clue was at the top of that page. If you configure with "--disabl

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

Hi, if your new machine will be arriving soon, I would recommend assisting the Access Grid team in doing the port. Then you'll not waste time trying to get Python 2.3.x and the associated version of Access Grid installed. Good luck, -Conrad On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL P

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

> And I have no idea what configuring with "--disable-framework" does, or > whether Access Grid needs that. Well, that's your real problem. You don't know what kind of Python facilities your application needs. But in general, yes, definitely configure with --disable-toolbox-glue and --disable-f

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

Conrad Taylor wrote: > Hi, if your new machine will be arriving soon, I would recommend assisting > the Access Grid team in doing the port. Then you'll not waste time trying > to get Python 2.3.x and the associated version of Access Grid installed. Regretfully, I have no idea when the new machin