On 3-feb-2006, at 18:09, Bob Ippolito wrote:
On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Andrew Jaffe wrote:I originally posted this in a different thread, but I realize that the first post was about 10 levels deep, so possibly ignored by people whomight care or be able to help (or possibly just ignored as a dumb question). Anyway, is there a 'best' way to install python packages on a mac nowadays? It seems that there at least three possibilities: - plain old setup.py install - bdist_mpkg - eggs (in which case I realize I'm not sure I know exactly *how* to do this) I've been using bdist_mpkg a lot recently, but this discussion is making me think it may not the preferred way. Any opinions? (There was one answer in favor of plain-old setup.py install.)Whichever one works. setup.py install works for everything, but you might need to specify --install-scripts in order to make the scripts get installed to a useful location. bdist_mpkg does that for you.
Depends on what you find a useful location :-). I've used my unix-fu to add the bin directory inside the python framework to my PATH. That way my python stuf is nicely in one place and I don't have to worryabout 'python2.3 setup.py install' replacing files I had earlier installed
using python2.4.
Some packages are dumb and don't really use distutils, like Twisted, so bdist_mpkg doesn't work everywhere. setuptools is a bit more sensitive to distutils abuse and definitely doesn't like Twisted, but also doesn't like some other packages like Zope.Interface (IIRC). If you want to learn more about setuptools from a user's perspective, read the EasyInstall documentation. If you want to learn about it from a developer's perspective, read the setuptools and PkgResources documentation. http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources Personally, I've been using setuptools for everything lately because it deals with a few issues like dependencies and development builds. It's not yet ready for everyone all the time, but it's clearly the future.
+1 Ronald
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