![]() What's the down side? As has mentioned in the comments, it is good if you're OK with default compilations of packages. When is it particularly useful? When you want to install on top of a version of python that is different to system python, and when you have non-python extensions (C, C++, Fortran.). Overriding the system python can break applications that rely on it (this is certainly true in many Linux distributions, maybe less so on mac OS X). ![]() And because the default installation location is not the system executable location. Why use macports (or another installer)? Because they take care of dependencies, provide functionality to uninstall and switch between versions (I've used the latter successfully for gcc and python). ![]() I would recommend using macports, it should take care of dependencies and would be indepedent of the system python version.ĮDIT: Just a few clarifications, taking into account comments to this answer. ![]()
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