[Biopython] question on installation of BioPython on Mac OS 10.7

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Daria Fedyukina <fedyukina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I have version 4.2.1 of Xcode.

I think that is what my Mac OS X 10.7 Lion machine has - not checked yet.

> I went to Macintosh HD-> Developer and I see SDKs and Tools folders. But the
> content of both is daunting. I have no idea what I can do with it, probably
> nothing. When I click on Xcode in my Dock, there is no command line, it
> looks like a piece of GUI software with, it reminds me Eclipse.

Xcode covers a *lot* of stuff, including a GUI for editing source code,
system library files for compiling code, and compilers themselves
(for C, C++, etc).

> The command line that I used before is called X11 and I found it in
> /Applications/Utilities/X11.
>
> I tried to figure out what the difference between X11 and Xcode (if any) and
> whether X11 was in Utilities prior Xcode installation. But I do not know the
> answers to these questions.

Normally I would use the Mac OS  X command line via the "Terminal"
application, also under  /Applications/Utilities, but getting to a command
line prompt via X11 instead should work.

Peter