Re: [Visualpython-users] native Mac

[Brad M. <bm...@lu...>]

I agree!

The folks over on the pythonmac-sig mailing list are doing a great  
job of building packages that integrate with either 2.3.5 or even  
better the 2.4.1 build of Python.  Both of which have a nice version  
of idle.  It seems like such a waste to me to have to start up X11 to  
do OpenGL when there is such great OpenGL support native on the mac.

I have tried (unsuccessfully) to get the latest versions of Boost,  
Boost.python and VPython to compile and work together under gcc-4.0  
and Tiger.  If anyone is interested in collaborating I would be  
willing to continue to put some effort on this.

Brad
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Brad Miller, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Luther College
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On May 17, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> We have a Mac lab and one of the support people made the following  
> comment, which I pass along on the chance it will suggest another  
> possible approach for someone in the VPython community who is  
> knowledgeable about the Mac environment.
>
> ----------------------
> I find it much more difficult for me to support the separate  
> Xwindows vpython.  My goal is to get to a native MacOS X  
> implementation which can be layered on the python that ships from  
> the vendor.  From my stand point if I could just add Numeric and  
> Visual to /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages and then call /System/ 
> Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
> idlelib/idle  I am way ahead of the game support wise (no Xwindows  
> to block logout, no long build sessions, vendor does most of the  
> work, etc).
>
> So to that end, the dependencies not shipped with 10.4 appear to be  
> Boost and Gtk+ (which both have 10.3/4 native builds). I believe  
> that a full non-Xwindows build of Visual could be done (Numeric and  
> numarray are already available at http://pythonmac.org/packages/)  
> but I do not have the resources to put into any development in this  
> area.  There may be other dependencies I am not aware of as well.
>
> Otherwise:
> For the individual user the workaround posted by Aaron Titus is  
> fine. If you wanted to extend that by creating a platypus (http:// 
> sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus) application which would be a self  
> contained application of the vpython Xwindows parts from fink that  
> would be great!!
>
>
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