On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:44:03AM -0700, Brian Enigma wrote:
>     It looks like the OS X bash (which is also /bin/sh) does not 
> support 'stat' natively, nor is there an executable.  I would guess 
> there has to be a Fink package somewhere, but I cannot seem to find it 
> (the Debian package that contains stat is not in Fink, and nothing else 
> looks like it might contain it).

Ok, it could be that I'm using a newer version.

> Re: 'export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=quartz'
>     This did not seem to help.
>     Installing MacPython 
> (http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/macpython-osx.html) and using 
> it's /usr/local/bin/pythonw looks like it might have fixed this small 
> piece of the problem, but added a few of its own.  It suddenly could 
> not automatically find some of the requisite libraries (I am not 
> entirely sure why).  I had to manually set ${PYTHONPATH} (which is not 
> the best idea in the world, but I just wanted to see something work) to 
> a number of directories+subdirectories in /sw/lib/python2.3 and 
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.3.  
> This was not a big deal because some shell scripting can automatically 
> add these and the various directories in the two site-packages folders. 

There is a big different from "MacPython" and UNIX python; macpython
is a 'Framework' on OSX; you want the normal /usr/bin/python. 

>  I am now unable to import qp_xml from xml.utils ("ImportError: No 
> module named utils"), so I am guessing that I either missed something 
> or have the elements in PYTHONPATH shuffled around incorrectly.

That's part of Python-XML (which is in Python 2.3 I think, but
available seperately)

>     I am now wondering if I should try reinstalling all of the 
> prerequisites using the pythonw interpreter.

I think you should be using /usr/bin/python.

>     Let me know if you want the diffs to play around with.  They're not 
> pretty and certainly not yet designed to play nice with non OS X 
> operating systems.  It seems like I am "almost there" as far as getting 
> it to work, but my Python experience is a little rusty (have not 
> touched it in over 2 years), and my OS X experience is fairly new.

I don't know how much help I would be, since I don't have the time to
get Python-Pygame running under OS X just now.

Aubin


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