On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Tom Panzarella
<tpanzarella@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of the things that's being debated for C-Turtle is how to
> package Python this time around. The options are:
>
> 1) status quo: py25-* packages via MacPorts
> 2) py26-* packages via MacPorts
> 3) easy_install for all Python packages, use system installation of
> Python
>
> I'm starting to lean towards #3, based on the fact that I've
> experienced numerous Python regressions with the MacPorts packages
> (e.g. ipython and readline), but feedback is always welcome. I would
> like a solution that works well with both 10.5 and 10.6, though the
> large discontinuity between those OSX releases makes maintaining
> both difficult (even from a Python perspective).
Ken,
Another option is to use virtualenv (with the --no-site-packages
option) to package python with ROS then use easy_install to install
python packages into that python environment. This essentially allows
you to dedicate a python to ROS and insulate ROS from any issues with
other pythons installed on the host. If you are not familiar with
virtualenv, you can read about it / get it from here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
Thanks,
Tom.