[pygtk] How to install pyGTK on Mac?

[Arjan Molenaar]

On 1 Jan 2012, at 13:10, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Arjan Molenaar wrote:
> 
>> I've been using Homebrew (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew) for a while and I'm very happy with it. Big advantage is that it's not compiling everything from source (it's using the system Python installation). 
>> 
>> There are several forks with PyGtk included. I'm currently using https://github.com/ashgti/homebrew.
> 
> I don't use Homebrew, for this.
> 
> 1) It's _not_ supported upstream (no Python modules allowed)
> 2) It would use the X11 server, rather than the native Quartz
> 3) You would still need Xcode and compile GTK+ etc from source
> 
> I did have my own fork of Homebrew, and it worked just fine...
> It would be possible to use Python, Quartz and "bottles" even
> with Homebrew, but in the end* it just wasn't worth the effort ?
> 
> * https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/3946
> 
> So that's why I did my own build system and binary packages. :-P
> 
> --anders

I saw a mail come by on this subject a while ago indeed. Back then I did not have time to look into it. I'll give it a try. Thanks for reminding :).

There are a few things behaving slightly different in the Quartz version, but I think I can iron those out.

Personally I have no trouble using X11, but towards users using native Quartz is somewhat more usable.

Regards,

Arjan