[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing wxPython with ActivePython and OSX

[Charles Hartman]

Thanks to Chris, Kevin, and Bob. Yes, I should have changed the  
thread name. I stayed with it because it's where Kevin posted the  
good news about wxPython.

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it awfully silly to have these  
competing versions around, with names and apparent pedigrees similar  
enough so that, for instance, if somebody stumbles onto this list  
asking about problems with "this new Universal binary of Python 2.4 I  
just installed," it won't take two rounds of messages even to find  
out what version it is? How anyone could guess that pythonmac.org/ 
packages has the current best while the one at python.org/download/ 
releases is obsolete, is beyond me. This is not doing any good for  
all the fine bring-in-the-newbies work that's been going on  
(revivified website, spanking new icons, etc).

I can happily report, though, that *either* Universal build of Python- 
for-the-Macintosh 2.4 seems to work with the pre-release Universal of  
wxPython 2.6.3.2 -- after something's done to fix the lib location.

Charles Hartman



On Apr 24, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Apr 24, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
>>
>>> Charles Hartman wrote:
>>>> I did the "obvious":
>>>> 	sudo mv /usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.6.3.2rc1 /usr/local/
>>>> lib/ wxPython-unicode-2.6.3.2
>>>> and it seems to work. Did I create havoc somewhere else?
>>>
>>> probably not, but in general, you should use a sym link, rather
>>> than a re-name:
>>>
>>> sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.6.3.2rc1 /usr/local/
>>> lib/wxPython-unicode-2.6.3.2
>>>
>>>
>>> however, it looks like you're installing the new Universal build of
>>> wxPython into ActivePython. It may well work, but I think the
>>> Universal wxPython was built with and designed for the
>>> UniversalBuild at:
>>>
>>
>> Something is very screwy here. Because I've been waiting for wxPython
>> before trying the Universal, I followed links, not from here, but
>> from wxpython.org/download.php ("You will need the Universal
>> MacPython available from Python.org") which took me to  
>> www.python.org/
>> download/releases/2.4.3 where there is a link to "Universal-
>> MacPython-2.4.3.dmg". I assumed I was getting Ronald's build. Is it
>> ActiveState's??? Perhaps -- to put it calmly -- there should a note
>> to this effect?
>
> Do not download from python.org.  Unless they've updated it  
> recently, that's the unoptimized (about twice as slow on either  
> platform) older version with a couple errata.
>
>> Can I now just download the one from pythonmac.org ("Universal-
>> MacPython-2.4.3-2006-04-07.dmg") and install it, and expect things to
>> work?
>
> That's the most recent Unviersal Python, but I'm not sure if you  
> can expect wxPython to work or not :)
>
> -bob
>