On Oct 2, 2006, at 21:24, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> Using easy_install is quite easy -- you type "easy_install
> WhatYouNeed" and press return. That's it. Users currently need some
> familiarity with Terminal in order to get anything done with Python
> anyway.
Not necessarily. I know one person who u
On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
That said, I have to add that I am not a big fan of setuptools. Last
time I checked, they didn't handle installation of C header files in
a useful way. Since most of my packages include C header files and
depend on other packages' C header file
Bob Ippolito said:
> Using easy_install is quite easy -- you type "easy_install
> WhatYouNeed" and press return. That's it. Users currently need some
> familiarity with Terminal in order to get anything done with Python
> anyway.
But hasn't there been real progress toward making that not true? An
Charles Hartman wrote:
> Bob Ippolito said:
>> Users currently need some familiarity with Terminal in order to get
>> anything done with Python anyway.
> But hasn't there been real progress toward making that not true? And
> isn't that a good thing? Can't Python be an OSX programming
> enrivonme
On 10/3/06, Konrad Hinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2006, at 21:24, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> > Using easy_install is quite easy -- you type "easy_install
> > WhatYouNeed" and press return. That's it. Users currently need some
> > familiarity with Terminal in order to get anything done w
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> >>
> >> PyObjC, wxPython, Tk, all need to be installed correctly before
> >> they can
> >> be used.
>
> On 10.4 Tk is already installed and could be used, it has ap
On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
So far, it appears the easiest way to make a package easy to
install for
a mac user is to make a *.mpgk of it. In fact, I've advocated for
years
that the best way to make python accessible on all platforms if to
have
packages in a "n
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bob Ippolito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
> There are options with easy_install to do all of these things. I'm
> pretty sure there's an option to download packages without installing
> them that people use to download the eggs (e.g. for transfer to
> another
On Oct 3, 2006, at 7:18 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 2, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
PyObjC, wxPython, Tk, all need to be installed correctly before
they can
be used.
On 10.4 Tk is already installed
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bob Ippolito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/2/06, Russell E. Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Will C extensions to Python that are built on 64 bit Macs (such as the
> > new iMacs) will work on 32 bit Macs, and visa versa?
>
> Definitely if the universal
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:24:24PM +0200, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> My guess is that it is much more convenient to build a very shallow
> wrapper around easy_install, basicly just a window with a textbox
> where you can enter an easy_install command-line and larger textview
> to show the outpu
On 10/3/06, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Hartman wrote:
> > Bob Ippolito said:
> >> Users currently need some familiarity with Terminal in order to get
> >> anything done with Python anyway.
>
> > But hasn't there been real progress toward making that not true? And
> > i
Charles Hartman wrote:
>> Using easy_install is quite easy -- you type "easy_install
>> WhatYouNeed" and press return. That's it. Users currently need some
>> familiarity with Terminal in order to get anything done with Python
>> anyway.
>
> But hasn't there been real progress toward making that n
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