On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Phil Christensen<p...@bubblehouse.org> wrote: > On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Matt Bennett wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I used the Twisted 8.2.0 for OS X 10.5 installer from [1] to install >> twisted on my mac. I don't understand why, but I seem to have two >> copies of the source on the disk > > This is a frustrating partial install of Twisted that ships with OS X > (AFAIK just to support iCal Server). Interestingly enough, it's gone > from Snow Leopard; the calendar server must use something else these > days...
Very curious. I don't know anything about the design rationale but the end result is pretty unintuitive. At the very least some documentation about the situation would be useful. > You have two options. One option is to create a .pth file that points > to your twisted source dir (I used this method since I was running SVN > head). My twisted.pth file in site-packages looks like this: > > import sys; sys.path = [s for s in sys.path if s != '/Library/Python/ > 2.5/site-packages'] > import sys; sys.path.insert(0, '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages') > import sys; sys.path.insert(0, '/Users/phil/Workspace/Twisted') > > But honestly, I think all you'd really need is the last line. I don't > develop on my 10.5 machine anymore, so I don't exactly remember why I > did some of this ;-) > > Another option I hadn't considered until now is to just remove that > existing Twisted install. Unless you use iCal server it doesn't get > used by anything else in the OS, so you should be fine. You could > always zip it just to be safe. > > Hope my ramblings help in some way ;-) Certainly did, thank you. I modified my path just as you suggested, although I'm curious as to how this approach doesn't also break iCal server. Matt. > -phil > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
