If you go the ports route, download and install Porticus (highly recommended) to give you graphical management of the ports packages, to clean, download, install, activate/deactivate, handle dependencies, show you all variations of a particular port and just checkmark all the optional compiles you want to build.
I went for the Python.org framework over Apple's framework because it was a simple install without worrying about ports. The only problem you may encounter is if you start doing game programming with Pygame, etc. While this may not be a worry because for years Pygame.org never had any up-to-date current OS X binaries. However, they just released the latest version for OS X and if you use the Python.org framework you will have to install PyObjC 1.4 (on their download page) to make it work with Leopard. Other than that I've found no headaches or worries by going with the Python.org framework install. Other things I added to my framework install to make life easier was iPython, virtualenv (and virtualenvwrapper from the python magazine article) which will also make use of the PEAK easy install setup tool. If it was not for these last few tools working together I would probably have gone full hog into the port route of making sure I got the most up-to-date files. With them its more like an apt management system in Debian/Ubuntu systems for binaries/eggs instead of ports and the whole compilation process. Whichever you choose, bets of luck. Cheers, PN 2008/8/22 Chris Fonnesbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrew Jaffe <a.h.jaffe <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Hi All, >> >> Thanks for the advice! >> >> However, I'm pretty sure I don't need the overhead of a fink or MacPorts >> install -- I've been very happy with Framwork installs so far (and I'm >> pretty sure that's necessary for PyObjC). >> > I can vouch for the new Enthought Python: > > http://www.enthought.com/products/epddownload.php > > It comes with a variety of scientific programming packages, and uses egg > packages, so it is very easy to maintain and update. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
