Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4 - Installer myopia

[Daniel Lord]

On Apr 15, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: Installers for extensions are specific to a particular version of Python anyway.  But is that always necessary? I am sure it is sometimes, particularly when the OS changes dramatically like from 10.3 to 10.4. But what about the case of the Alias research product I wonder. Mac OS X installers don't try and detect Python, they hard code where they expect to find it (win32 installers do search though).  Your problem is that you found the wrong installer, not that the installer found the wrong Python. Interesting lack of awareness and function in the Mac OS X installers. Is it by design or due to a limitation in options in the installer tools? Why don't they behave like some well-mannered installers I have used which locate *all* the potential paths and let you decide which one is used? And if the extension only works with say Python 2.4 on OS X 10.3, it could either force acceptance of that one or if it didn't find it, it could refuse to install.

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