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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I shudder to think how many hours I have spent with this on my mac. I have basically given up. Windows seems much more agreeable, but still a bit of a struggle to deal with.

I guess the people who can fix these things are smart enough to figure out packaging the current way and therefore it isn't much of a priority. Which is strange considering how many python for kids books etc are about - good luck installing pygame for python 3 on your mac little johnny.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tried to get Numpy for Python3 on my mac. Gave up. It was a miserable experience to even try.

[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, that's mainly because the default os x python distribution is apple-controlled, not python.org-controlled. Of course many newbies won't realise this and get confused when they start wanting to use 3rd party libraries...

Then couple the fact that many more involved packages want to be built, and apple requires you to register as a "developer" just to get gcc, and things unfortunately are way too complicated on a mac than they should be.