Comments on: Using Python setuptools on the mac http://andreasjacobsen.com/2008/10/10/using-python-setuptools-on-the-mac/ Another cause of procrastination Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sascha Brossmann http://andreasjacobsen.com/2008/10/10/using-python-setuptools-on-the-mac/#comment-79 Sascha Brossmann Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:23:23 +0000 http://andreasjacobsen.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-79 Thanks, Andreas and Phillip! This post finally solved all those issues that have already been othering me for months now. Hooray! Thanks, Andreas and Phillip! This post finally solved all those issues that have already been othering me for months now. Hooray!

]]> By: Andreas http://andreasjacobsen.com/2008/10/10/using-python-setuptools-on-the-mac/#comment-42 Andreas Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:28:01 +0000 http://andreasjacobsen.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-42 Thanks for those pointers, James. Pyinstall looks quite neat. The virtualenv stuff looks interesting as well, though I dunno if it's for my casual hacking. If I ever do anything serious with Python again I'll definitely look at it. Thanks for those pointers, James. Pyinstall looks quite neat. The virtualenv stuff looks interesting as well, though I dunno if it’s for my casual hacking. If I ever do anything serious with Python again I’ll definitely look at it.

]]> By: James Bennett http://andreasjacobsen.com/2008/10/10/using-python-setuptools-on-the-mac/#comment-27 James Bennett Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:17:10 +0000 http://andreasjacobsen.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-27 Yes, setuptools and easy_install are a major pain. I've switched over to using Ian Bicking's alternative pyinstall (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyinstall/0.1.4) for pretty much everything; it clears up a lot of the warts with easy_install, and is much easier to use in repeatable/reproducible deployments. Either way, you really owe it to yourself to try out virtualenv (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/1.3) and virtualenvwrapper (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenvwrapper/1.2), which have basically changed the way I work with Python -- installing things into a virtualenv (with either easy_install or pyinstall, both of which work for the task) is so much simpler that I don't think I'll ever go back to site-wide installs and Python path hacking again :) Yes, setuptools and easy_install are a major pain. I’ve switched over to using Ian Bicking’s alternative pyinstall (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyinstall/0.1.4) for pretty much everything; it clears up a lot of the warts with easy_install, and is much easier to use in repeatable/reproducible deployments.

Either way, you really owe it to yourself to try out virtualenv (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/1.3) and virtualenvwrapper (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenvwrapper/1.2), which have basically changed the way I work with Python — installing things into a virtualenv (with either easy_install or pyinstall, both of which work for the task) is so much simpler that I don’t think I’ll ever go back to site-wide installs and Python path hacking again :)

]]> By: Andreas http://andreasjacobsen.com/2008/10/10/using-python-setuptools-on-the-mac/#comment-13 Andreas Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:51:41 +0000 http://andreasjacobsen.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-13 Thanks, that looks like it'll solve it nicely. Thanks, that looks like it’ll solve it nicely.

]]> By: Phillip J. Eby http://andreasjacobsen.com/2008/10/10/using-python-setuptools-on-the-mac/#comment-8 Phillip J. Eby Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:49:56 +0000 http://andreasjacobsen.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-8 Just use "easy_install -s /usr/bin setuptools" to upgrade the scripts in /usr/bin. Just use “easy_install -s /usr/bin setuptools” to upgrade the scripts in /usr/bin.

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