[GNC] Adding Transactions From Another Program

[Hal Vaughan]

Actually, this has me looking over what I am and am not still using.

Since Mac is still using Python 2.7, but Catalina is coming up and that includes Python 3.x.  So I’m looking over what I use and what I don’t among my decades of scripts.

Last I looked, pretty much every system like that usurped the originals.  At the time, when I looked them over, it became clear to me why they did that and it made sense.  But, again, that decision was something like 10 years ago and I haven’t had time or cause to revisit it - until now.

Do you know if Homebrew can provide the Python bindings for GC?


Hal

> On Apr 30, 2020, at 2:27 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> Have you investigated Homebrew vs. MacPorts?
> 
> Just curious if the Perl issues are the same.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On Apr 30, 2020 w18d121, at 12:29 AM, Hal Vaughan <hal at hal.dance> wrote:
>> 
>> I’ve checked out the bindings - as I mentioned in my original post, the problem is that using the bindings on a Mac requires MacPorts.  I’ve had issues before, since MacPorts (and other similar systems) usurp some of the normal paths for things like Perl and Python.  I don’t use Perl for coding anymore, but I have Perl scripts I’ve been using for over a decade that do some simple work for me.  I had an important Perl script I was using that used a specific Perl library.  I don’t remember which one it was, but when I added MacPorts and tried to run my script a week later, it crashed.
>> 
>> I had no idea MacPorts, Fink, Homebrew, and similar systems usurped the normal system paths for scripting languages.  When I installed it, and it took over for Perl, it put in a system without all the libraries my scripts used and some of the libraries that were available to me with a standard Perl install (libraries I had installed from CPAN) would not install in the new system.  I had to completely remove MacPorts to get my old scripts to work.
>> 
>> I’d love to use MacPorts, since it makes a lot available to me that I can’t easily add now (unless I start using a Linux VM), but that experience taught me never to trust such a system.
>> 
>> I think it would be a lot easier for me to do this with Python bindings, but I still use older scripts for things I need to do once a month or once a year and I don’t want to risk breaking them again like they broke about a decade ago when I installed MacPorts.
>> 
>> 
>> Hal
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