Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-16 Thread Eric Walstad
Hey Cheng, On Friday 15 September 2006 17:11, Cheng Zhang wrote: > On Sep 13, 2006, at 11:21 PM, Eric Walstad wrote: > > One of the developers on my team works on a Mac, while the other > > two of > > us are on Linux. Our apps are deployed on Linux PC machines. The Mac > > guy had a harder time

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-15 Thread Cheng Zhang
Totally agree with Tyson. You won't regret picking a Mac for Django/ Python or any web design work at all. TextMate is a great editor, at least as much powerful as Vim or Emacs, with a overwhelmingly damn pretty looking and enjoyable GUI. The only con of TextMate is it ain't free and open sou

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-15 Thread Cheng Zhang
On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:01 PM, spacedman wrote: > I'd be tempted to say to do your development on the platform that most > closely matches your deployment platform. We're using Apache and > mod_python on our own Linux web server here, so that's the best thing > for development for us. My opinion

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-15 Thread Cheng Zhang
On Sep 13, 2006, at 11:21 PM, Eric Walstad wrote: > One of the developers on my team works on a Mac, while the other > two of > us are on Linux. Our apps are deployed on Linux PC machines. The Mac > guy had a harder time setting up his development environment, > having to > compile more pa

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-14 Thread spacedman
I use Windows at home for video and audio editing, and getting Django things to work on there can be annying at times - its usually file paths to python, and things like #!/bin/env and all that, and whether you run from cygwin or DOS shell. Aaargh, the horror. I wrote my poker blog at home on Wind

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 14-Sep-06, at 1:48 PM, brian corrigan wrote: > The only problem I came across with the Mac (iBook) was that there is > no c compiler installed. You can download xcode tools it is there on the install CD, but not in the default install -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://nrc

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-14 Thread Roodie
Fortunately the xcode tools is on the install DVD for the newer OSX versions. > > The only problem I came across with the Mac (iBook) was that there is > no c compiler installed. You can download xcode tools (I think) from > the apple developer site which will give you gcc. The problem is tha

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-14 Thread Johannes Beigel
brian corrigan schrieb: > The only problem I came across with the Mac (iBook) was that there is > no c compiler installed. You can download xcode tools (I think) from > the apple developer site which will give you gcc. The problem is that > xcode is about a 1GB (latest realease)./installing_django

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-14 Thread brian corrigan
The only problem I came across with the Mac (iBook) was that there is no c compiler installed. You can download xcode tools (I think) from the apple developer site which will give you gcc. The problem is that xcode is about a 1GB (latest realease). Takes a while to download. Other than that though

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 13-Sep-06, at 10:43 PM, Tyson Tate wrote: > Heck, why not get the best of both worlds: Get a MacBook or other > Intel Mac. You can run the delicious UNIX-y goodness of MacOS X for > real work and then drop in to Windows when you need to do whatever it > is that people would want to do in Wind

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 13-Sep-06, at 8:51 PM, Eric Walstad wrote: > was that there were some differences in the capabilities of the Mac > Python do you have to use Mac Python? Cant you install the standard python like on other BSDs? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Marcelo Maia Garcia
I also use laptop with dual boot (Windows/Fedora) and I'm very happy.On 9/13/06, Michael Samoylov <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:I use PC with linux. PC laptop is more than twice cheaper than Mac --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Tyson Tate
Heck, why not get the best of both worlds: Get a MacBook or other Intel Mac. You can run the delicious UNIX-y goodness of MacOS X for real work and then drop in to Windows when you need to do whatever it is that people would want to do in Windows (get headaches?). Django works wonderfully o

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Wilson MacGyver
On OSX, one of the first thing I do is download and installthe latest Python from http://www.python.org/downloadIt's straight forward and let you have up to date python so you can avoid problems like that.On 9/13/06, Eric Walstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the developers on my team works on

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Michael Samoylov
I use PC with linux. PC laptop is more than twice cheaper than Mac --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscr

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Joseph Kocherhans
On 9/13/06, keukaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am in the market for a notebook computer that I will be doing my web > design work on. Could I get some comments related to which is better > for Django work - P.C. or Mac, as well as some pros & cons of each? I use OS X as well for all my dev

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Jay Parlar
On 9/14/06, Eric Walstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the developers on my team works on a Mac, while the other two of > us are on Linux. Our apps are deployed on Linux PC machines. The Mac > guy had a harder time setting up his development environment, having to > compile more packages f

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Eric Walstad
keukaman wrote: > I am in the market for a notebook computer that I will be doing my web > design work on. Could I get some comments related to which is better > for Django work - P.C. or Mac, as well as some pros & cons of each? > Thanks. One of the developers on my team works on a Mac, while th

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Roodie
I use both ( well, mainly the MacBook lately ), and I cannot notice any real difference between the two ( regarding django development of course ). Only one thing - postgres setup can be a little tricky on the macbook, while mySQL has a nice native installer which "just works". You have

Re: Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 9/13/06, keukaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in the market for a notebook computer that I will be doing my web > design work on. Could I get some comments related to which is better > for Django work - P.C. or Mac, as well as some pros & cons of each? > Thanks. I'll be the first to say

Mac vs. PC for Django work.

2006-09-13 Thread keukaman
I am in the market for a notebook computer that I will be doing my web design work on. Could I get some comments related to which is better for Django work - P.C. or Mac, as well as some pros & cons of each? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message