On Dec 17, 10:12 am, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > > >> > or (for MacPorts fans): > > >> > $ sudo port install python31 > > >> And since I haven't got one, this also tells me nothing. > > >http://www.macports.org/ > > > "The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design > > an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either > > command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X > > operating system." > > Description sans marketing fluff: It's a Mac package manager. It's > basically the same as Gentoo's portage if you've ever used that. It > downloads source tarballs and patches and then compiles them locally. > There are built-in lists of "variants", basically sets of configure > args, to compile each package.
That's the kind of thing I want to hear. Looks like I can go ahead and get a Mac and not worry about getting 3.1.1 installed. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
