[visionegg] Re: Installing visionegg on OS X

Hey Dav..

Thats Pretty helpful...
Im not always fond of EPD...but its a quick and fast setup on OSX...so
I have used it with some of my users...
And this is a great tip...thanks for the heads up...

--Cindee

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Dav Clark<dav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For those that have suffered, as I have, with the difficulty of installing
> pygame (and thus visionegg) on a mac:
>
> Suffer no more!  It is now quite easy to install in EPD (or presumably other
> distributions of python).  But, if you do install with EPD, you need to
> delete the libz files from:
>
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.3.0/lib
>
> They are non-fat, which crashes the build of pyobjc.  After that, though,
> easy_install works for pyobjc, pygame and visionegg (assuming you have SDL
> installed,  and you've fixed EPD such that it doesn't block you from using
> easy_install with it's password-protected repository - edit .enstallerrc in
> site-packages to do that).
>
> I guess it's still not "easy," but it certainly takes less interaction on my
> end!
>
> Cheers,
> Dav
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