On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> > That's the same as saying "someone who does some work can do more
> > work". Why should this person do more work when they don't have to?
> > Why don't we just take the half-cent worth of disk space and install
> > the 2.4 binaries while we're there?

> One reason is that I might want to use different versions of packags
> in Python 2.3 and 2.4. Another reason is that noone else does this
> and you will therefore confuse some people by having a single
> installer that supports python 2.3 and 2.4.

Well, in this case there's only one version of the packages (actually,
there are a couple of extra features for 10.4 but that is irrelevant for
2.3 vs 2.4).  As for your second point, I hardly think it's confusing to
say, "This installer supports these versions of python".

I also think this is more Mac-like.  Software components typically have
requirements that look like "10.3.1+" and so what is confusing is to say
that something works with Python 2.3 but not Python 2.4.  (It may be
natural for a python developer, of course).

Nick
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