[twill] Intel Macs and Twill

[Titus Brown]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:10:12PM +0100, John J Lee wrote:
-> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Titus Brown wrote:
-> 
-> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:55:20PM -0700, Peri Cumali wrote:
-> > -> FYI just ran into an issue when trying to install twill on a shiny new
-> > -> Intel Dual Core iMac.  In order to install it with easy_install you must
-> > -> upgrade your version of Python to 2.4 or above.  The latest version of
-> > -> OS X comes with 2.3.5.  I upgraded to 2.5 and all seems swell so far.
-> > ->
-> > -> Just a heads up for the archives.
-> >
-> > Hi, Peri,
-> >
-> > this sounds really odd to me.  I've got an Intel Mac now too, and I
-> > didn't have any problems at all installing it under 2.3 with
-> > easy_install... do you have any speculation as to what might be going
-> > on?
-> 
-> A guess: Perhaps Peri mis-read the message from easy_install explaining 
-> that *easy_install* (not Python) needed to be upgraded.  (S)he would have 
-> succeeded under 2.5 because s(he) would have got the latest easy_install 
-> (and not because it was the latest Python).

Hi, John,

that's a good guess!  But...  does easy_install come with *any* version
of Python yet?  I had to install it on my own OS X machine.

--titus