Easier OSX installation now available from http://vpython.org.
You don't need to register as an OSX developer, install the developer
tools, and compile Visual, because this is a binary installer. Also,
Numeric is automatically installed.
With the next release of OSX, you won't have to install X11 either,
because it comes with the new release.
This is currently for Python 2.2, because there isn't in the "stable"
part of the Fink application catalog a package for Python 2.3. It would
be much preferable to use Python 2.3, because that comes with the new
Idle, whereas the old Idle for VPython has Emacs key bindings which are
not intuitive for most people. I may post instructions on how to install
Python 2.3, in which case I'll also post a binary installer for VPython.
The new installer is simply a tar file of the binary components. It
would be better for it to be a Fink package, but I don't know how to do
that. Volunteer?
Bruce Sherwood
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