Tuesday, December 9, 2003

The PythonMac.org  wiki faq has an entry to which I just added a line: 4.1 I just installed OS X 10.3, which has MacPython 2.3, but where's PackageManager (or why doesn't it work) PackageManager, PythonIDE, the waste module, and the rest of the applications that are normally in /Applications/MacPython-2.3 need to be installed separately. You can download them from the Official MacPython Site. If you had a previous installation of MacPython 2.3 (i.e. with 10.2.x before the upgrade), it should be uninstalled first, instructions are here, additionally you should also remove the Library/Python folder from your user folder if you have one (i.e. you had performed user PackageManager installs). The installer you want is labeled "MacPython 2.3 for Panther addons" on the download page. Uninstalling these extra Pythons on OS X 10.3 is a particularly good idea, because they can step on each other's toes. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2003-December/009627.html It's not a pretty picture, especially when some components of a package show up in one in the /Library/Frameworks/Python... tree and other components show up in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python... and you get different error messages from the IDE vs the command line, and....  Which is not to say the problems are solved.  Just that  they seem to have gotten more tractable.  Let me say again.  The amount of configuration fiddling we endure, suffer, and tolerate in this business is scandalous. comments? [] 8:47:13 PM

© Copyright 2004 Jon Schull. Last update: 2/8/04; 10:24:49 AM.