On 9/20/06, Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > > On 9/20/06, Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I asked the original question and I want to thank folks for > >> contributing answers. > >> > >> On Sep 20, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > A major conceptual difference between MacPorts/Fink and MacPython > >> > is that the the first two are projects to use unix software on the > >> > mac, while MacPython is more focused on fitting in with the OS. > >> > >> Here is the statement that puzzles me the most. OSX is Unix. What > >> differences are you referring to? > > > > MacPorts makes OS X feel like a BSD. Fink makes OS X feel like Debian. > > OS X generally feels more like NeXTStep. These are very different > > things. > > NeXT is where I came to this party from. I don't have a "Mac" > background. > > > > > > >> I long for the day when I can just grab the latest tarball, untar, > >> configure, make and make install and it builds and fits in with OSX. > > > > You can, if you change configure to "configure --enable-framework". > > Though you may also want to specify "--enable-universalsdk"... and you > > might want to use the dist scripts to automatically do all of this and > > download and build universal versions of the dependencies. > > OK, maybe I'll try it. Lord knows that Ruby build easily enough. > > My comments now are more for Apple than you guys
Well, to get an equivalent to the Ruby build (no framework, traditional unix style) all you do is "./configure && make && sudo make install". Python however has GUI apps and a framework that can be optionally used, so there's a configure option to twiddle. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
