[Pythonmac-SIG] State of Python on the Mac

[Bob Ippolito]

Pete,

First of all, It's not easy to redistribute.   Otherwise, most of the 
packages I'd really want to use are nonfunctional, not present, or just 
wouldn't install right.  For example, I wanted to see if glade would 
work on top of Apple's X11 with fink.. it wasn't in stable, couldn't 
get it to work otherwise.  I didn't have the time or need to mess 
around with it for very long, I was hoping fink would just do it, but I 
resorted to using a linux box instead because I had more important 
things to do at the time.

I've pretty much gotten used to the fact that if I want to run X11 
software (rarely) I should just do it on a linux box.

-bob

On Sunday, Mar 2, 2003, at 22:09 America/New_York, Pete Versteegen 
wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> You seem to imply having a problem with Fink.  Could you elaborate on 
> the
> reservations you have about Fink?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 3/2/03 8:51 PM, "Bob Ippolito" <bob@redivi.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, Mar 2, 2003, at 20:04 America/New_York, John W Baxter 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And, just to stir things up (actually, it's a serious question), what
>>> impact will Apple's X11 implementation have, when it becomes part of
>>> the
>>> Mac OS X install CDs (really optional? pseudo-optional like BSD
>>> subsystem?
>>> part of the base?)?  Or final but acquired separately.
>>>
>>> Should person hours being devoted to making X11 things work in Cocoa 
>>> be
>>> shifted to something else?  If X11 will be "acquired separately"
>>> probably
>>> not.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, it's pretty worthless without fink, because it
>> doesn't come with any useful libraries (gnome, kde, etc).  Also, I
>> don't think these libraries are available anywhere without fink.
>>
>> If you need fink anyways, what good is Apple's X11 distribution?  I
>> don't particularly want to install fink.
>>
>> -bob
>>
>>
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