[Pythonmac-SIG] python 2.6 on mac seems to break compatibility

[Christopher Barker]

Mark Bestley wrote:
> I can see several choices

yup -- it's easy to do all or nothing with macport or fink, though I do 
see folks using macports to satisfy the dependencies for some python 
extensions -- I wonder how?

> If 1 works good - 2 or 3 would take more time

4) Use the pre-built Universal Framework libs available from:

http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/doku.php?id=software:frameworks

I think UnixImageIO and FreeType will get you everything you need.

These are dynamic libs that are built so that they can be used as OS-X 
Frameworks, and have a structure so that they fit in well with 
traditional unix builds.

you need to do a bit of path manipulation to get the PIL build to find 
them, but they work fine.

The downside is that your PIL will then be dependent on them -- which is 
not a problem unless you want to distribute your PIL build.

I think it would be a good idea to establish these Frameworks as a 
"standard" way to support these libs with MacPython extensions, but I 
didn't get much interest when I proposed it, and I haven't had the time 
to push it myself.

I edited PIL's setup.py to support using these Frameworks a while back. 
I haven't got it tested enough to submit a patch to PIL, but I've 
enclosed what I did with this message.

-Chris






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