On 1/2/12 13:03 , Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, K Richard Pixley<r...@noir.com> wrote:
Where would I look to find the current expected status of python3 on MacOsX
Lion?
The distributed binaries aren't capable of allowing extensions that use gcc.
I can build the source naked, but then it lacks some libraries, notably,
readline.
Attempting to build the full Mac packages fails, even with the few tiny
patches I used for 2.7.2.
Is anyone working on this? Are there pre-release patches available?
Should I be asking elsewhere?
--rich
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Have you tried building through Macports?
No, I haven't. Macports scares me. When I tried them, or fink, in the
past, they rapidly polluted my boot disk and I didn't have any way to
unpollute it other than reloading from scratch.
In freebsd, netbsd, or any of the linux distributions, I can trivially
create a virtual machine in about 20 minutes, screw with it as I like,
and toss it in seconds. In modern linux, I can create a root file
system with btrfs, snapshot, chroot to the snapshot and munge away.
When I'm done, I can just toss the snapshot. (Can do snapshots in
vmware too).
If I screw up my boot drive in MacOsX, I'm in for hours of recovery time
reloading from Time Machine. While that's a lot better than it used to
be now that Time Machine is available, (reloading can now be done
largely unattended), it's not a price I'm willing to pay in order to
attempt to use Macports.
--rich
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