Re: [Visualpython-users] New version of x11 (1.1.3) again

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

Yup. It had been a while since I looked to see whether there was a 
binary version. I've updated vpython.org to reflect the new situation.

Bruce

Martin Costabel wrote:

>Mark Hammond wrote:
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>>I did finally get Vpython working... and it wasn't all that hard. As I
>>mentioned in my earlier post, I used the expert installation instructions
>>on my daughter's new MacBook (which has the latest version of X11 on it).
>>It didn't work. I followed Bruce's suggestions, finding that vpython and
>>python were apparently not where they should be (I guess not on my hard
>>drive at all). I opened Fink Commander and followed the easy non-Intel
>>instructions, installing visualpython2.4 from binaries. It worked fine.
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>>So I'm not sure why the need for the expert/Intel instructions.
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>There is indeed no need right now. Binaries for 
>visual-py2[34]-3.2.9-1002 exist for both ppc and intel on the Fink 
>bindist server. The instructions on the web page are from some months 
>ago when there was no intel binary package yet. Plus, it is somewhat 
>hard to verify, because the Fink package database web page pretends not 
>to know the existence of any binary version of visual-pyXX-3.2.9 for OSX 
>10.4. This is a known bug of the package database (shows only packages 
>in "release", not in "current".)
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>But I would still like to understand why building from source ("expert 
>instructions") did not work. It should, too.
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