Re: [Pyobjc-dev] was: [Swig] Swig for Mac OSX - Objective-C?

[Bob S. <bob...@ma...>]

on 1/29/02 3:48 PM, Steven D. Majewski wrote:
>> 
>> I checked out the pyobjc from CVS, and ran "setup.py install" (probably with
>> the 2.2 version of Python, in case that makes a difference).
>> 
> 
> I believe that *does* make a difference: one of the features of distutils
> is that, since you're running Python, it knows which version you're
> running and where it's libraries are installed, etc.   If you have
> several versions installed, you can explicitly run 'python2.1' or
> you can give an entire path for an uninstalled version ( '/usr/local/
> src/Python-2.2/python.exe' for example. )

I still can't get it to work. I'm getting this error:

DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/lib/python2.1/config/Makefile (No
such file or directory)

In fact there is nothing in the 'site-packages' directory (??) I looked in
/usr/local/lib/python2.1/Lib where there is another site-packages directory
(also empty) and a bunch of other localized directories, but it is far from
clear to me that picking one of those will solve the problem.

> 
> To be more exact and precise: I did my diffs on 2.1.2 and 2.2 -- I didn't
> believe that this was in 2.1 or 2.1.1 but I'm not absolutely sure.
> (But that PyObject_DelItemString may be from running setup.py from 2.2)
 ...
> Giving the 2.2 bug a little more thought: I THINK that if I build
> a pyobjc.so with a patched 2.2, it should work with an unpatched 2.2
> binary. It's the wrong symbol in Python's Include file that causes
> pyobjc to bind to  symbol that's not there. If that is true, I'll
> probably roll out another distribution, as well as a 2.2 pyobjc.so
> binary whether or not I can find and fix that one-last-bug!

Well, I see that the patch was accepted, so perhaps the best thing for me to
do is sit tight and wait for your revision to work with 2.2 (?)

> 
> Does it also use NSProxy ?  (Just wondering if you have more know-how than
> I do for debugging my pyobjc problem! ;-)
> 

Sorry :) I guess all that stuff is handled by the NSConnection object.

Bob (must have pizza now)