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 _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
