[mod_python] Apaches and Pythons and Tigers, oh my!

So you just wrote to complain?  No help, no recommendations?  Just fix 
stuff so it runs on the platform you like?

Since thousands of Linux users around the world have no problem with 
these set ups, I would think the problem lies in OS X.  I like it too, 
but I don't use it for software development.  Maybe you should be 
complaining to Apple and not the Open Source community.

I think you accurately summarize your view on the matter in your post 
script.  You expect someone else to do it for you.

cindy mason wrote:
> I would like to address this email because not just 4 weeks ago
> I was in the same situation.  Although luckily I did not touch
> 2.3  The installs went ok.  BUt I was never able to use Django,
> since it depended on mysql, and the mysqldb failed.
>
> The problems I was having were the same.  I never got the answers
> as to where/what  path vars needed to be set, any init files, etc.
> so that the ensemble of python, mysql, and django would orchestrate
> together.
>
> 2.5 has the advantage of having sqlite in it.   If I was going to
> do it again, starting with Django, I'd have tried to find someone
> who had gone through installing on OSX before.   It seems such a 
> let down to think this is such a great language, and then not
> be able to get it installed.
>
> I understand that on linix boxes, this is not a problem.
>
> Since OSX is the best machine environment I have ever used in my
> life, and I have installed dozens of other languages, tools, sw,
> on this and other platforms, I would have to conclude that the
> install of the Django setup on OSX requires in-depth sys admin
> knowledge that is not in the documentation...  hitting a landmine
> like you did is unacceptable to me as a user.   
>
> This kind of situation costs our country and each of us HUGE 
> amounts of wasted time.   Viruses are bad enough.  But the time
> it takes to recover from such problems is wasted time that we
> could have been doing something productive.
>
> That's my two cents.
>
> Remember, you can always fall back on perl.   That will still work.
> :)
>
> Cindy
>
> ps.
> I do plan to try python in the future, but only if someone else
> who knows how to do it, and has done it, sets the system up.
> Its a MAJOR process on OSX apparently.
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