On 10 nov. 05, at 05:00, Michael Wybrow wrote:
Additional note about python: As I understand it, python is shipped with mac os X, even without the developers packaged installed. does somebody knows if pyXML is somewhere inside this? fink apparently has a package pyxml for different versions of python but it requires to install python from fink which is a waste of space and compile time. in addition, know that there is an Inkscape package it would be great to be able to use it completely without fink. My idea behind this is that, as effects are enabled by default now, as most of them require pyxml, as mac os X has python and as mac users are lazy and want ready to use stuff, would it be possible to use os x python, or provide them with a package or... whatever.
I haven't looked at python or getting the effects working without fink. Please feel free explore what needs to be done to get this working nicely.
So I looked at this rapidly and it appears that pyxml isn't including in os x python. the official mac os x scripting page is even taking this as an example of possible downloaded addition. So I downloaded the package and there is a compiling problem which is easily solved by a environment variable export. I added all this to the wiki page about compiling inkscape for os X. But it might not be the best place to put it... I made a link to there from the enabling effects page though. But I don't have a clue about what will happen if we make a package of this. There are compiled C extensions so I don't know to what extend they would work if distributed in a binary form. It appears nonetheless that everything is in: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/ so I made a dmg of it which is here: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/pyXML.dmg can somebody without pyXML try this? or michael can you uninstall your pyxml from fink (temporarily at least) and try this. Afterwards reinstalling the one from fink shouldn't be to long because it should keep a deb of it I guess. Thanks in advance.
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