id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc	branch	branch_author	launchpad_bug
4923	updates Download page	daenney	exarkun	"Currently the Downloads page states that because OS X has a systemwide installation of an old Twisted and there's no safe way to upgrade users are stuck with the Twisted Apple provides.

However, if one would use virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper it's perfectly possible to use a newer version of Twisted:

{{{
mkvirtualenv --python=pyton2.6 --no-site-packages --distribute  virtualenvname
workon virtualenvname
pip install twisted
}}}

The only problem with this is that a py2app bundled application that requires a newer version of Twisted would need to be launched from within the virtualenv otherwise they'd be stuck on Twisted 8.2.0.

If people are using a newer python version, from MacPython or something like that, their path is changed and they can install Twisted from pypi without breaking anything."	enhancement	closed	normal		website	fixed		oubiwann thijs