Starting a new environment

I have a wonderful opportunity to start an entirely new development environment. This opportunity came to me as I was at the apple store today and got a fresh install of an OS on a blank drive on an old macbook.

So I'm looking at this:
OS X v 10.5.6 - thanks to the genius at apple
Python 2.5.1 - installed with OS
Django 0.96.3 - matches the google app engine version, or close to it
Google App Engine 1.2 - Its what is available

And it works...

So I guess all it takes to get stuff running is a completely fresh machine. I had roughly 0 issues with this. All installs were seamless.

Back in the day when I used to play around I seem to remember environments being about 40x harder to install. This was trivial. Awesome.

Tomorrow I'll get Django and Google App Engine playing together.