After a bit of going back and forth I'm now using MacPorts more or less exclusively since it makes it easy to have multiple version (2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0) installed in parallel.
-- Horst On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:07 AM, cjl <cjl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've been on Windows and Linux for many years, and recently picked up >> a Macbook Pro for the fun of it. >> >> To be honest, I'm kind of disappointed with the Python included with >> Leopard. I spent some time googling around to see what my options are >> for running Python 2.6.1, and came up with this list: >> >> 1. Use the stock Python, slightly outdated 2.5.1, with weird and >> incomplete modules. > > This is what I do currently, and I have done for almost a year (since > I got my latest laptop). I'm not sure what you consider to be the > "wierd and incomplete modules" - the only two problems I have had are > with PIL and MySQL, and the MySQL problem is more about MySQL than > Django or Python. > >> 3. Use MacPorts Python. Anyone know why the nearly all of Xorg gets >> built as a dependency? > > I did this on my last computer. It worked fine; as a bonus, it was > easy (well.. easier) to switch between pacakge versions for testing. I > don't remember X.org being a dependency - there may be an option to > turn this off. > > Anyway, YMMV. At the end of the day, do whatever works for you and you > are comfortable with. > > Yours > Russ Magee %-) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
