mike meyer tlfmiredorg 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 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 second time osx used older version lxml 136 setuppy install worked like charm thats hard system installing modern version lxml easy freebsd probably libxml2 libxslt arent part system software 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 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 httpwwwmiredorgconsultinghtml independent networkunixperforce consultant email information _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 025416 0400 pythondev python xml validator