On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Darren Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:50 PM, William Kyngesburye > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hmm, Macports. It's great for those who want a familiar packagae-manager >> setup or just don't want to get their fingers dirty compiling source. > > I'm quite comfortable compiling from source. The value I find in a > package manager is 1) keeping up with software upgrades and 2) making > it easier for people who use my own software to get up and running, > many of whom think it is unreasonable to download and install 10 > prerequisites to do so. > >> It >> adds itself to your PATH and can cause trouble for non-Macports builds >> (getting wrong versions of tools in the system, like GNU vs. BSD versions, >> wrong libs linked). I don't mean to start a debate over it, just pointing >> out that you might want to look at trying to do things the Mac way first, >> like installers where available. >> >> Python does have up-to-date installers for a more Mac-standard Python >> framework install. > > I appreciate the comment, and decided to not use a package manager for > the time being and try to get comfortable with the "Mac way". > > Following up on my original post, I installed python-2.6.3 using the > installer at python.org, which installed into /Library/Frameworks/ and > automatically prepended > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin to my path in > ~/.profile. With this configuration, when I install PyQt4, pyuic4 etc > end up on the path. There was no need for passing additional arguments > to configure.py. > > I found some other issues related to using the system python > (/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages appearing late in PYTHONPATH, so > system-provided packages like numpy-1.2.1 are favored over manually > installed packages like numpy-1.3), so it looks like it is a good idea > to not use the system python.
I don't want to turn this into a forum to air general mac issues, but I have to qualify that last remark. The mac installers distributed by python.org do not appear to support a 64 bit environment. So I am back to using the system python. Darren _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
