text_combined: stefan behnel fbqmcw_upbehnelde mike meyer wrote tue 11 mar 2008 145504 0100 stefan behnel wrote weird places threads come mike meyer wrote tue 04 mar 2008 154432 0800 ned deily wrote article 51951867168434095nz5d8bhudamiredorg mike meyer wrote thu 28 feb 2008 234249 0000 utc medhat gayed wrote lxml good written python difficult install didnt work macos x please note original complaint mine however due design problem macosx problem lxml didnt find noticeably harder install lxml macosx systems seems number people though turn mailing list complaining hard install either previous posts presented depends define hard create custom environment updated version system libraries use lxml id call hard pretty much route available first time wanted lxml osx ubuntu rhel got lot better problem tell operating system look libraries installed still refuse consider problem lxml btw macos builds ago wouldnt mind someone volunteer contribute builds regular basis static builds preferred second time osx used older version lxml 136 setuppy install worked like charm thats hard interesting 136 also require libxml2 2620 although maybe less strictly 20 however authors tend require recent versions libxml2 libxslt means recent versions lxml wont build andor work libraries bundled many unix unixlike systems wouldnt consider dependency almost three year old library version recent libxml2 2620 released july 2005 well youre development box update regularly youre right three years old pretty old youre talking production box dont touch unless absolutely youre wrong three years old still pretty recent example recent release rhel 46 ships libxml2 2616 ok thats pretty old although last version supported requiring 2620 last summer somewhere 13 series anyway definitely less problem upgrade system libraries linux iirc rpm bs helps older rhl versions macos means wind build want recent version lxml even youre using system includes lxml package system want clean system eg production use buildout proven good idea also provide pretty good instructions web page install lxml macosx take care yes proposal include python standard library software doesnt work popular target platforms without updating standard system library isnt really suitable hmm coming somewhat back ontopic python currently handle dependencies macosx sqlite example use system libraries libraries ships macos distro much bigger might due universal build although suggests macosx users care disk space download size anyway looks like already ships expat platforms add libxml2libxslt distribution least platforms necessary happily ignoring fact lxml isnt currently even close integrated admittedly would add 13mb uncompressed distro regarding updated version requirements always discussed mailing list reason continued support 2616 macosx 104 found users installed newer libraries anyway old ones old crashprone stefan _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 074639 0100 pythondev python xml validator