I noticed Mac OS X 10.3.1 already has python, but I don't see a system-python placeholder in fink 0.17.1 in either stable/unstable.
I'm installing sawfish 1.1-16 and for some build reason it says python is a dependency. I don't know if Mac OS X's python (version 2.3) would be good enough, but I definitely would like to avoid having multiple versions on my computer if possible.
Does anybody know whether there's a system-python placeholder that hasn't been moved to the 10.3 dist, or if the python on Mac OS X 10.3.1 is good enough for sawfish? Or some other option?
Not yet. I don't know how sawfish uses python, but I suspect it would have to be modified in order to use Panther's Python.framework.
You are asking questions that have not yet been discussed by the fink developers, AFAIK. I am bouncing this to the developers list, because I am interested in this, too.
Panther's Python.framework is probably sufficient to satisfy python-23 dependencies for most purposes (it only lacks a static library, but has the right dynamic libraries and headers). OTOH, its structure is somewhat different (the dynamic library has no .dylib suffix and isn't at the place expected by packages that don't know what frameworks are) so that a virtual package would not be sufficient. But a system-python23 package establishing a few symlinks would probably not be hard to put together.
-- Martin
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