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
