Hi, if your new machine will be arriving soon, I would recommend assisting the Access Grid team in doing the port. Then you'll not waste time trying to get Python 2.3.x and the associated version of Access Grid installed. Good luck,
-Conrad On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Jansen wrote: > > > there's only one potential problem and that's the PPC/Intel issue. If > > you have a PowerPC mac (or you can live with running Python under > > Rosetta on an Intel Mac) I would first try to download a binary 2.3.X. > > My guess is that there's a 90% chance that it works. The issue might be > > finding compatible binary installers for Tcl/Tk and wxPython. > > My desktop machine is a PowerMac G5 (PPC), running Mac OS X 10.5. And I > figured that wxPython and Tcl/Tk Aqua might have to be re-installed and > pointed to the back-ported Python 2.3 installation, but I figured I'd > cross > that bridge when I came to it. > > > If the binary installer doesn't work just build the source. > > My primary concern is (was?) that the older binary builds are talking > about > things like Mac OS X 10.3 or Mac OS X 10.4, and I don't know what may have > changed between 10.3/10.4 and 10.5 that might cause them to break. > > > BUT (large > > but, here): don't try to build for Intel, only for PPC. > > This is a case where I don't care about Intel, so that's not a problem. > > Now, when my new machine arrives, then I'll care about Intel, but by then > maybe Access Grid will have been updated to work with Python 2.5, and I > won't have a problem. > > -- > Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig >
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