Supported Operating Systems

Contents

• Supported Operating Systems
  • Introduction
  • C-Extension Modules Required by TurboGears
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows

Introduction

TurboGears and CherryPy are pure-Python packages, so in theory they should run on every platform that Python supports. However, TurboGears has a few dependencies on C-extension modules, which must be compilable on the target system to be able to install and run TurboGears.

This page will list combinations of operating system, architecture, Python and TurboGears versions that are known to work and whether a compiler is necessary to install a certain combination.

C-Extension Modules Required by TurboGears

Extension	Python 2.3 / 2.4	Python 2.5	Extra library requirements
cElementTree	yes	no [1]	no
Cheetah	yes	yes	no
PyProtocols	yes	yes	no
RuleDispatch	yes	yes	no
simplejson	yes	yes	no
pysqlite2 (optional)	yes	no [2]	libsqlite3
psycopg2 (optional)	yes	yes	libpq [3]
MySQL-python [4] (optional)	yes	yes	libmysqlclient

[1]	uses standard library module xml.etree

[2]	uses standard library module sqlite3

[3]	might require additional libraries, depending on PostgreSQL client installation, e.g. SSL and Kerberos libraries

[4]	a.k.a. MySQLdb

Linux

Standard TurboGears installation should be supported on all systems with a proper build environment and a Python development package installed. Optional database modules will require the appropriate database client libraries and headers when no binary package is available and the package must be compiled on the target system.

Tested for TurboGears version: 1.0.4.4

Python version		2.3	2.4	2.5	2.3	2.4	2.5
Architecture		i686			x86_64
Extension	Version	Binary available? [5]
cElementTree	1.0.5	no	yes	n/A	no	yes	n/A
Cheetah	2.0.1	no	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
RuleDispatch	r2306	no	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
PyProtocols	r2302	no	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
simplejson	1.8.1	no	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
pysqlite	2.4.1	no	yes	n/A	no	yes	n/A
Install w/out compiler?		no	yes	yes	no	yes	yes

[5]	from http://turbogears.org/download/

Mac OS X

Standard TurboGears installation should be supported on Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) and 10.5 (“Leopard”) with Python >= 2.3 and the Xcode developer tools (includes gcc) installed.

Optional database modules can be downloaded as binary packages from third-party vendors, see the Mac OS X installation page for more information.

Tested for TurboGears version: 1.0.4.4

Python version		2.3	2.4	2.5	2.3	2.4	2.5
OS X version		10.4 (Tiger, ppc/i386)			10.5 (Leopard, ix86)
Extension	Version	Binary available? [6]
cElementTree	1.0.5	y/y	y/y	n/A	no	no	n/A
Cheetah	2.0.1	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes
RuleDispatch	r2306	n/y	yes	yes	no	no	yes
PyProtocols	r2302	n/y	yes	yes	no	no	yes
simplejson	1.8.1	no	yes	yes	no	no	no
pysqlite	2.4.1	no	yes	n/A	no	no	n/A
Install w/out compiler?		no	yes	yes	no	no	no

[6]	from http://turbogears.org/download/

Windows

Tested for TurboGears version: 1.0.4.4

Python version		2.3	2.4	2.5	2.3	2.4	2.5
Architecture		win32 (x86)			x86-64
Extension	Version	Binary available? [7]
cElementTree	1.0.5	yes	yes	n/A	no	no	n/A
Cheetah	2.0.1	no [8]	yes	yes	no	no	no
RuleDispatch	r2306	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
PyProtocols	r2302	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
simplejson	1.8.1	no	yes	yes	no	no	no
pysqlite	2.4.1	yes [9]	yes [9]	n/A	no	no	n/A
Install w/out compiler?		no [10]	yes	yes	no	no	no

[7]	from http://turbogears.org/download/

[8]	Cheetah installs without C compiler but is much slower)

[9]	(1, 2) from http://pypi.python.org/pypi

[10]	Python 2.3 support broken in TurboGears 1.0.4.4