On Feb 9, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: >> Could a Mac ever ship with an >>> acceptable pre-installed Python? If not, perhaps the solution for >>> Apple is to move /usr/bin/python to some other spot, like >>> /usr/libexec/, or some such place. >> >> The issue of not being able to produce redistributable applications >> still exists, and also backwards compatibility with previous versions >> of Mac OS X. > > So you're saying that the pre-installed version could never be really > acceptable. In that case, perhaps we only need convince Apple to move > /usr/bin/python to some more system-y place that wouldn't usually be > on users' paths. > > We then in the MacPython world take the position that Python isn't > really pre-installed on Macs, and the place for a person to start > would be to download the installer and run it. Perhaps then in > addition the installer could symlink /usr/local/bin/pythonw to > /usr/bin/python, thereby solving the PATH issue.
That's not an acceptable solution. We need to support versions of OS X that currently exist, and we can't depend on Apple to do anything. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
