installer fails to detect python on OS X 10.6.6

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. download and run either of the pybox2d mac installers
2. click through to the drive selection page of the installer

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected: click continue to install
instead: continue button is disabled. drive icon has a warning badge which when 
clicked explains that System Python 2.x cannot be found and thus installation 
cannot continue.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
pybox2d 2.0.2b1 (py2.5 or py2.6)
Mac OSX 10.6.6

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by comedayb...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 12:24

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This is not a pybox2d issue. See the note 
[http://code.google.com/p/pybox2d/wiki/Installer#OS_X here] for one. I'm not 
sure of the packaged version of Python with OSX 10.6.6, but with older versions 
of OSX the community recommendation (as from 
[http://www.python.org/download/mac/ here]) has always been to install the 
official versions from the Python site.

If you, or anyone, can tell me how to target the System Python versions, I 
would be happy to make installers for the next release. Even then, I don't 
think Pygame and other graphics libraries would work with it.

Original comment by sir...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 12:38

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if the osx installers don't serve the most common need then they probably 
shouldn't be in the list of downloads. also you might want to make the first 
sentence of the os x installer help section recommend using easy_install. i was 
confused by the term "official installer" since an installer provided by a 
package seems official.

Original comment by comedayb...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 12:55

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If they shouldn't be in the list of downloads, where should they be? Do you 
suggest I just not target OS X? Is it my fault that the fairly standard mpkg by 
way of setuptools does not use System Python?

The 'official installer' does not refer to pybox2d. It refers to Python.

Original comment by sir...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 1:07

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all i'm saying is that installation was confusing and problematic for me. and 
for these reasons:

1. "easy_install pybox2d" didn't work because the project name is different 
than the install name.
2. the most promising looking downloadable installer didn't work.
3. the OSX section of the pybox2d help page confusingly talked about that 
non-working installer instead of first saying "on mac, install with: 
easy_install box2d". then it might say "if your situation is such-and-such, 
consider using the mpkg installer."

Original comment by comedayb...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 1:26

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Well, thank you for breaking it down. I will modify the documentation to 
attempt to be more clear.

Please bear in mind these things:
1. I am a one person 'team', working on this project because (sometimes) I find 
it fun and satisfying.
2. It is very difficult to support 3 platforms and several versions of Python 
when your library is not pure Python -- especially when you have limited access 
to some of those platforms.
3. One of two (likely both) of your issues were previously reported. I can't 
completely fault you for that, because I've done it myself before. But please 
do consider the previous points when posting further issues for this (or other 
projects). A little bit of work on the users' behalf can save a great deal of 
time for the developer. 

The downloads have not been updated for a long time -- I realize that. I've 
been trying to work toward a release of a new version for a long time now.

Original comment by sir...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 1:43