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Subject: Re: [Mojonation-devel] Mac Python/Mojonation
From: Gregory P . Smith (gregmad-scientist.com)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 16:44:51 CDT

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:06:40AM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> Has anyone tried to bash Mojonation to fit Mac Python yet?
>
> Is anyone thinking about it?
>
> I just downloaded Mac Python 2.0, which is in final candidate form, and am
> about to go to sourceforge to haul down Mojonation, but that, like most of
> my myriad attempts to muck in code, (RealBASIC, OSX/GNU tools, etc.) will
> probably hit the wall sooner or later, :-), so I'm curious how many folks
> have tried to do this yet.

That's be -awesome- if you were able to get it running there. There are
two major areas where you'll potentially run into problems:

* BerkeleyDB - I don't know if its been ported to MacOS 9, if not
                you'll either need to port it or develop a suitable mac
                replacement to the py-bsddb3 library. I'm an advocate
                for porting it. If you come up with an alternative it
                needs to support transactions and multithreaded access
                to the database as well as being free software.
* Crypto++ - C++ linking issues when making binary python modules
                are a pain; though I wouldn't be surprised if some of
                the MacOS 9 compilers can deal with it.

Greg

PS I cc's the mojonation-ports list; join up there for porting
   specific issues. Its a new list.