In article <aanlktimaqylndoskyvo5fnpfui4lwd61697nauutw...@mail.gmail.com>, Tony Cappellini <cappy2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Daniel O'Donovan > <dan.odono...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I think you'll find that the biggest difference between MacPorts python > > (and fink python) and most other builds (python.org for example), is that > > MacPorts uses X11 rather than Aqua (Apple's native window manager) and are > > not built as Apple 'Frameworks' - but rather regular shared libraries (more > > like with linux).
Actually, while Fink uses a Unix-style shared library build, most other distributors including MacPorts, the Apple-supplied Pythons in OS X, and the ActiveState Pythons, use an OS X framework build based on the python.org builds. The Tk on MacPorts is built as an X11 version by default but there is an Aqua port variant at well. Unfortunately, the Aqua variant is broken on OS X 10.6 but there is hope that it will get unbroken now that ActiveState has started packaging a reliable version of the patched Cocoa-based Tk 8.5 which works in both 32- and 64-bit modes. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
