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What's installed by default on Jaguar?: msg#00129

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Subject: What's installed by default on Jaguar?

So I just noticed that on a recently clean install of Jaguar (with the latest patches, incuding BSD "optional" install, but no developer tools installed), PyOXIDE wouldn't work correctly. I eventually narrowed it down to the fact that I couldn't import objc. I thought this was part of Python.framework by default, but apparently not.

So I went to packman to install it. I could have sworn there was a nice little icon & stand alone verison of it, but couldn't find that either. Eventually I used the shell to go to (IIRC) /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.Framework/Versions/2.3/Mac/Tools/IDE and directly opened PackageManager.py using pythonw. It doesn't work either - it can't import waste. Can't launch the IDE there - again, no waste.

Looking in /Library/Python/2.3 all that's in there is a README that says what it is there for (but no information on where to get more stuff). On a machine that's been updated over the years to 10.3 /Library/Python/2.3 has both _tkinter.so and waste.so (I remember installing _tkinter.so using PackMan - obviously I didn't install waste.so with PackMan because, well, PackMan doesn't run without it).

So how does one install waste.so in the first place? (I ended up using pimp.py to manually install PyObjC binary and that works, but I didn't see waste on the list of packages - if I didn't read this mailing list I would have never known to try that).


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Glenn Andreas gandreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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