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Yes and No. I like my Air for developing and you would have to pry it from my cold dead fingers, buuuuut: I tried to install python PIL just yesterday and thoug
by wildmXranat 15y ago
Yes and No. I like my Air for developing and you would have to pry it from my cold dead fingers, buuuuut: I tried to install python PIL just yesterday and thought easy as pie, not! easy_install complains that gcc is getting the ARCH_FLAGS as ppc not x84_64, plus a couple of other nitpicks. So I used ports, but that means I had to install a new Python interpreter ... and well I have better things to do that replace apt.
Apt > (ports,mac,brew) anyday, but rarely is it an issue.
- div 15y agoNo package manager is perfect though. Installing rubygems through apt for example is a pain because it's a custom version that will install gems to a different directory than vanilla rubygems. Trivial to fix if you know about it, but you have to figure it out which easily wastes as much time as having to install macports.
- canistr 15y agoI know exactly what you mean. I tried installing PIL and OpenCV a while back on my MBP and it was completely frustrating with all the different problems I was running into. Finally gave up, installed Ubuntu on a VM, and synced my dev files on OS X with my dev environment with Dropbox. Ran all my code on in my Ubuntu VM just fine. Some things I love OS X for, other things I leave to Linux because they're still much much easier to develop for.