Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] "Best" Mac Python under Leopard?

2008-08-21 Thread Python Nutter
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

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] "Best" Mac Python under Leopard?

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Fonnesbeck
Andrew Jaffe 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

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] "Best" Mac Python under Leopard?

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Jaffe
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 think the detailed questions are: is there a way to use PyObjC with a

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] "Best" Mac Python under Leopard?

2008-08-21 Thread Frank Schima
Hi Andrew, On Aug 21, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Andrew Jaffe wrote: I know this comes up every few months, but there is never a definitive answer given. The short version is: what is the best Python to use under Leopard? The longer version is: What is the best Python to use under leopard if:

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] "Best" Mac Python under Leopard?

2008-08-21 Thread Kevin Walzer
Andrew Jaffe wrote: It would also be great if there were a single place on the web where this is answered; if you search -- even with this group -- you get very different pieces of advice. The reason you get different pieces of advice is because there is no one correct answer. There are

[Pythonmac-SIG] "Best" Mac Python under Leopard?

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Jaffe
Hi All, I know this comes up every few months, but there is never a definitive answer given. The short version is: what is the best Python to use under Leopard? The longer version is: What is the best Python to use under leopard if: - I want to use PyObjC - I want to use more recent ver

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Next PyObjC release -- help with unit tests?

2008-08-21 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 21 Aug, 2008, at 13:31, s s wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: The main problem at the moment is PyObjC: the code supports 4-way builds (or rather, 3-way builds, libffi is broken on PPC64), but the repository is not as stable as it should be. I want to do a p

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] applescript bundle droplet

2008-08-21 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 21 Aug, 2008, at 3:08, beau wrote: I am using apple script to create a droplet that basically lets you pass the incoming file as an argument to a bundled python script. The python script then displays the output in a UI made with Tkinter. Questions: 1. is it possible to quit the apple scrip

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] building bundles with setuptools, py2app, 64-bit python 2.6

2008-08-21 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 20 Aug, 2008, at 5:05, Michael VanLandingham wrote: I recently built a Python64.framework & interpreter from the 2.6 sources (using Ronald O's recently recommended build settings), and then build PyObjC. Because I got an error running PyObjC's build script, (setup tries to pull down