Bill Janssen writes: > > Fink or MacPorts are often a practical necessity. > > Fink is deadly, MacPorts much more benign, in my experience. Which is > several years out-of-date, before I realized I didn't need either one of > them, and before the UNIX community started adding configure patches to > support OS X builds more widely. Perhaps they've improved.
FWIW, I use MacPorts heavily, and it works fine for the most recent release of Mac OS X which has been out for at least 6 months. Bug fixes for Snow Leopard in MacPorts are typically a matter of a handful of hours, but many port maintainers don't have full-time access to Leopard, and few will do more than pay lip service and help install a patch if you have problems with Tiger. IOW, the previous release always has occasional glitches, and the second previous release is a nightmare. MacPorts is fine if you don't mind occasionally messing with it and don't need to deal with Mac OS versions getting even slightly long in the tooth. > In any case, they shouldn't be needed on buildbots maintained by > the PSF. They should be avoided, as many users won't have them. MacPorts and presumably Fink have their own testing process, and the quality of /opt/local/lib varies quite a bit. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
