[lxml-dev] lxml Mac installation idea

[Guntsche Michael]

On Nov 9, 2008, at 22:27, Stefan Behnel wrote:

> The users are not the problem. The system itself is, and the (lack  
> of) updates
> that Apple provides, which is only partly compensated by different  
> package
> distributions that, instead of updating the system, install things  
> separately
> but within reach.

The reason for this is that nasty things may happen if you update the  
system internal files.
The main idea is just to NOT do that ever. On the other hand I do not  
think that it will be a problem for the xml/xslt libs. But if a  
security fix for the packages comes out your files will be overwritten  
again, maybe without you noticing it. So best practice is to just  
leave the system internal files and install updated files separately.  
I switched from fink to macports and never had a problem with my lxml  
installations at all. I just make sure that xml-config and xslt-config  
are taken from the correct location.

Well there is one thing though. Since the system python version AND  
the python version from python.org is build as Universal Binary I had  
to compile both libraries as Universal Binaries as well, but this is  
not a big problem with macports.

Kind regards,
Michael