Python frameworks

mark brethen mbrethen at aim.com
Tue Aug 9 17:28:33 PDT 2011


How about this?

http://jessenoller.com/2009/03/16/so-you-want-to-use-python-on-the-mac/

-Mark



On Aug 9, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 02:31, Russell Jones <russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > If so, I would be strongly against that. "port select" is exclusively for a user's convenience; no port should change how it installs or functions based on what the user may or may not have "port select"ed.
> 
> I can kind of see why you wouldn't want this on principle, but could you elaborate? Why should a user have to select which version of python they want for every package, when in the majority of cases the same version will be desired? Having a default doesn't exclude exceptions.
> 
> When the user uses port select to change the default Python, what should happen to all of these?  How do you plan to implement it?  What if there isn't a version of something installed this way for the selected Python variant?
> 
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