Re: Installing pyobjc?

On 10 Sep, 2012, at 3:03, Leonardo Santagada <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Michael McCracken
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The next release should be near, the main todo item for me is to check tot easy_install can install pyobjc from a collection of source archives.
>>> 
>>> Does this mean I will be able to install from a local copy of the source code, rather than downloading it from pypi every time I want to install it?  That would be really helpful for my configuration control.
>> 
>> For reference, I've been able to build and run pyobjc from the source
>> inside a virtualenv with just running 'python setup.py install', first
>> in pyobjc-core, then in the framework wrappers, as Ronald mentioned
>> earlier. It's not exactly easy_install, but it's not that hard.
>> 
>> This doesn't work if you have a mismatched MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
>> set, but if you don't need to change that, it works fine.
> 
> can I be the first to ask for a pip installable package? Either that
> or someone to do a review of the newer wrappers that use ctypes of
> cffi so that they don't need a c compiler to run.

A pip installable package will require a compiler, pip doesn't support binary installs. Setuptools and distribute do support that, but the pip developers decided that nobody actually need that support.

Ronald
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