Comment 17 for bug 387946

@Igor: MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> is not a binary distribution system - like the FreeBSD Ports system it provides 'Portfiles' to build and install software on OS X systems and manage all dependencies for the selected software packages.

It allows to install into a separate tree - independent from the operating system. On OS X it is the base of the build environment for Inkscape (installing all GTK+, GNOME, X11 and other libraries needed). Besides the basic Python 2.5 and 2.6 ports there are countless python modules available benefiting from the MacPorts port mechansim (easy to install, update, upgrade or uninstall).

As an example I used it to install both required modules 'PIL' and 'ReportLab' for 'UniConvertor 1.1.3'.
Here are the links to their portfiles for Python 2.5:
  PIL <http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/python/py25-pil/Portfile>
  ReportLab <http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/python/py25-reportlab/Portfile>
You don't need Mac hardware to provide/maintain these ports ;-)

~suv