Problem pyton PIL

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Apr 15 12:36:07 PDT 2014


On Apr 15, 2014, at 14:00, Ned Deily wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Where did /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework come from? It¹s not provided 
>> by Apple, nor any MacPorts port, and will likely interfere with things you 
>> want to install using MacPorts. I recommend you remove it.
> 
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework is the installation location for 
> the Pythons provided by python.org binary installers.  They will happily 
> co-exist with MacPorts- and Apple-provided Pythons.

Anything installed in /Library/Frameworks can potentially cause problems for MacPorts-installed software, as it might inadvertently find dependencies in /Library/Frameworks instead of the MacPorts-provided version thereof. This is similar to the /usr/local problem.

> That said, 2.7.0 is 
> quite old, so consider upgrading it or deleting it if you are now just 
> going to be using a MacPorts-based Python 2.7.



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