ronald oussoren twbegfyoispmasmaccom 11 mar 2008 1801 stefan behnel wrote 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 make life bit harder osx universal binaries although arent hard either btw design problem btw2 discusion problems building lxml osx better suited pythonmacsig list lxml one course 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 dmg pythonorg includes copies sqlite ncurses berkeley db thats mostly needed able run 1039 later guess size difference binary distributions mostly due universal binaries double size executables might get worse future hope find time go make python framework 4way universal 32bit 64bit code ppc intel ronald wed 06 aug 2008 082825 0100 pythondev python xml validator