Thanks for the answer, Bob, and thanks for the work on the Universal build, Ronald. If someone could answer my other questions as well, I would really appreciate it.
As a beginner, what does having a working readline actually mean to me? If I'm not building command line apps do I need that for user input? And why wouldn't ActiveState have one? Given that ActiveState seems to put forth the effort to make a release of Python that is compatible across multiple platforms, including a Universal Mac build, why does the MacPython community maintain a separate framework build? (No criticism intended here, I want to understand this) Again, is there really any reason that I would want to use one release over the other? Is it simply a matter of readline, whatever that buys me (I'm obviously a beginner to Python even though I've read a bit about it over the years) or is there some other major reason? Such as, will I have problems creating redistributable app bundles with ActiveState since Bob seems to be working mostly with the MacPython build? How about other add-on libraries I might want to use? If I go with the MacPython framework build, how likely is it to catch up to the current release of Python? I notice that it has been 6 months since the 2.4.2 release and it isn't easy for a new user to find links to a "official" Mac build of this version. I do note that Ronald has stated he will put out a 2.4.3 build when 2.4.3 is release, but I can't even find links to 2.4.2 on python.org. Is this likely to change? Thanks, -Rodney _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
