> Bill Janssen wrote: > > As you say, we've discussed this before. I think the #1 priority > > should be an installer for PIL that works with the system Python, what > > Chris is calling Apple Python. That's what users have, pre-installed. > > For Python 2.3.5 (on OS X 10.4), and Python 2.5 (on OS X 10.5). > > I beg to differ. Apple's Python2.5 on OS-X 10.5 (Leopard) is the only > one that is worth supporting. Early versions simply are not, and we > really, really, don't want to encourage anyone to use them -- it's just > not that hard to start with a download of an up to date Python.
As we've noted, this discussion has gone on before. I seem to be delivering quite a bit of functionality on the Tiger system Python 2.3.5, without issues. Lots of people are. > > And universal, so that it works on both Intel and PPC. > > Which isn't an option with the python Apple delivered with 10.4. Sure it is. Just two packages, one for Intel, and one for PPC, and a preinstall script that selects the right one. > > After that's in place, then an installer for the non-Apple Python > > distributed from python.org would also be a good thing. > > I still think this is the first priority -- it works on most OS-X > systems, etc. And it's analogous to Windows -- everyone builds Windows > binaries for the python.org Python -- it IS the Canonical python build. Yes, it is like Windows -- and that shouldn't be the model. Bill _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
