On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:

On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:


On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:

Probably everybody else knows this already, but I'll mention that under OS 10.3.8 I'm now happily running Python 2.4.1 with wxPython 2.5.4.1. (I had a hard time getting wxPython built -- wouldn't have gotten it at all without lots of help from Robin Dunn -- but anyone who knew what he or she was doing wouldn't have any trouble.) The two *seem* to be playing perfectly happily together.

I'd love to see a binary distribution for this. Building wxWidgets/wxPython is painful and slow. I build a lot of stuff, but wxPython is something I'd rather have someone else deal with..


Hopefully the Python 2.4.1 distribution I put out is enough of a catalyst to get their wheels turning :)

If I thought I knew enough to do it properly I'd do it happily. I like the combination very much, and I certainly agree it would be nice if it were easier to put together. Of course, Robin D does put together .dmg binaries from time to time; there just isn't one yet for wxPython 2.5.4. I don't know how to do it in a way that allows for the variations (unicode or not, replacing an old installation or not . . . trust me, everybody will be happier if I don't undertake this.

Having a non-unicode build seems pretty stupid to me. I think the only reason it's there is because Jaguar doesn't ship with all the necessary libraries, but I don't see why they can't just pull them from elsewhere and link them in. Unlike Windows, Mac OS X doesn't have separate ansi and unicode functions for everything. Some of the crusty old deprecated APIs take pascal strings in the system encoding (macroman, probably), but those aren't worth using.


-bob

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