Re: [Visualpython-users] Adding Visual to another Python install

[Bruce S. <bas...@nc...>]

I should add that if you use Fink on a Mac, Visual is one of the
available packages. So that's another environment that offers Visual
on a Mac without having to build from source.

Bruce Sherwood

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Bruce Sherwood <bas...@nc...> wrote:
> You certainly don't have to use VIDLE if you don't wish to. As for
> installing Visual for some Python other than the one for which it has
> been built, no, I don't see any way around building Visual yourself
> from source. Of course if your "existing Python installation" happens
> to be the standard Python for the Mac recommended by python.org,
> you're all set; just use the Visual installer for the Mac.
>
> By the way, you might be interested to know that Visual was created at
> Carnegie Mellon in 2000 by David Scherer, then a sophomore in computer
> science.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alex Edelman <ale...@gm...> wrote:
>> This is perhaps a basic question, but I haven't been able to find
>> documentation on the subject elsewhere. Is there a way to install
>> Visual so that it plays nice with an existing Python installation,
>> preferably without building from source? (I'm on a mac, have my python
>> set up the way I like it, and would really love to avoid VIDLE and
>> all.)
>>
>> With thanks for any help,
>>
>> Alex Edelman
>> Carnegie Mellon University
>> Physics, Class of 2012
>> ale...@gm...
>> ao...@cm...
>>
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