On May 3, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On May 3, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Russell Finn wrote: > > >> Allow me to chime in with a couple of related questions: >> >> >> >>> On May 2, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Lee Cullens wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Specific to this list, I will be putting up Bob's MacPython 2.4.1 >>>> afterwards. >>>> >>>> >> >> Is the 10.3 build of MacPython 2.4.1 still appropriate to install on >> Tiger? In particular, it looks (from doing Show Files in Installer) >> that it will apply the PantherPythonFix, and I understood that to be >> unnecessary (possibly undesirable?) in Tiger. >> > > Yes the 10.3 build of MacPython 2.4.1 is still appropriate. > > It looks like it does have PantherPythonFix embedded in it, but > that's harmless. It shouldn't do that, but I didn't write the crazy > package-builder scripts for MacPython :) > > >> On 5/2/05, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> You will want TigerPython24Fix if you plan on building any >>> extensions >>> yourself, because Python 2.4 as configured with GCC 3.x has some GCC >>> 4 incompatibilities, and that package will patch up the header so >>> that GCC 4 will work. >>> >>> >> >> ... but this cannot be installed until after 2.4.1 is installed, >> right? (It won't install at the moment, and I haven't installed >> 2.4.1 >> yet pending the previous issue.) >> > > It is a patch for Python 2.4.1, so it is necessary to have 2.4.1 > installed.
... and I just updated TigerPython24Fix such that it undoes the Makefile mangling from PantherPythonFix. It's up at pythonmac packages <http://pythonmac.org/packages/>. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
