[Chicago] Unix Development on OSX was Re: OSX Python

[Brian Ray]

Recently, I have been using ddd <http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/>  
with makefiles from VIM to debug Unix builds on OSX. In runs on X11  
although.  And of course it has some Python PDB integration although  
I have not gotten to checking this out yet.   Besides that, I use a  
lot of Xcode which is a nice IDE build on top of gdb and gcc. This is  
much more Unix like than Codewarrior, which is dead now because they  
did not want to go to Intel.

Basically, OSX 's unix is nice and you should be able to build  
anything you want on your mac. Darwin port is nice when you do not  
have the time to fiddle with headers and compile flags.

Python has amazing OSX support. Both, on the unix level and on a  
higher level. I think here <http://undefined.org/python/> is where I  
got the Python version I run. But, hey, OSX has shipped with Python  
all along and it works just fine. Although, one thing to be careful  
about is to realize which Python your running.

On the BSD level, most of the headers are the same you will use on  
other platforms. If your careful you know what your doing you can mix  
some of these with some of the System stuff.

-- bhr