On 1/4/06, Gábor Farkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > then i wanted to install psycopg. > > i could not find a macosx binary for psycopg. > > i downloaded the source code, compiled it and so on...and it was a pain.... > > so i switched to the fink python. > > a "fink install psycopg-py24" took care of my problems. > and later i installed pysqlite with a similar way. > and fink also contains posgresql7.4 and 8.0. yes, there are postgres > binaries for macosx, but it was simpler for me to simple fink_install it. > > so this is it. > > when you only need python, macpython is easier to install. but when you > need more python libraries around (some of which needs other non-python > packages (sqlite for example)), it's simpler imho to just use > fink/darwinports. > > now, maybe easy_install can do all the psycopg and pysqlite stuff, i > don't know. if it can, then consider this mail as obsolete :)
easy_install will help, but I certainly agree that having another source of binary packages makes life easier. If people want to put together instructions for Fink or DarwinPorts on the Documentation Playground, I'll figure out a way to link it in to the main install docs. > p.s: i checked the python cheese shop, and there is a pysqlite package, > but i could not find a psycopg one... And you do still need to have the sqlite library installed to install pysqlite. I'm planning on making a statically linked Mac egg for pysqlite as soon as I figure out how ;) Kevin
