Re: troubles on installation on fc2 and macosx 10.3

[Brett Duncan]

andrea valle wrote:
> Thanks a lot Mats and sorry for the delay.
>
> > Since the
> > syntax has changed a bit between the two versions, you cannot
> > use the same version of test.ly.
>
>
> Ok. That's true: I wrongly assumed test.ly was so simple to be common to 
> all versions.
>
> > Always read the documentation
> > corresponding to the version you use (and please always tell what
> > version of the program you have, when asking questions on the mailing
> > list).
>
> > I would be very surprised
> > if your own Python programs don't work equally well.
> > Without knowing
> > anything about Mac, I guess the solution is Fink.
>
>
>
> I'm out of Lab so I could not check what happened to mac and fedora. 
> Anyway, Apple on OSX installs a Python framework which is notoriously 
> delicate (at least following what is said on macpython page), so I was 
> asking myself if Fink installs an autonomous Python package and if 
> consequently there are drawbacks.
> Best

Fink installs a separate Python package which runs only in Terminal or 
your X11 framework (whether that's Apple's X11 or Xdarwin or whatever).

So far I've found the Python package that Fink installs to be rock solid.

HTH

Brett
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