On Jun 22, 2006, at 19:20, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > You can't please them all :-(. I'll add a warning to the readme > text in the installer. You can turn this feature of during > installation, the profile-editing step is a seperate package that > you can disable using the 'Customize' button. This feature was > discussed on this list
OK, that's fine. I do occasionally read the readmes ;-) > The current installers only install a number of symlinks in /usr/ > local/bin, the real cannonical installation location is inside the > python framework. The reason for this is I noticed, and that makes sense. > installation of python in the default location), but more > importantly because distutils will by default install new scripts > into the bin directory inside the framework. This confuses the heck > out of most users that install new python packages from source, > even long-time Python users. By placing the framework on the path > thing "just work". That is a good argument. But if you want to change $PATH systemwide, why not put it in .MacOSX/environment.plist? That would have an effect in all shells and also in programs like Emacs that look for a python executable on $PATH. Moreover, it wouldn't bother me because my .profile redefines the path completely :-) > Now that I've defended myself it's time to move forward again ;-). > Why do some applications require Fink python? Is that a convenience > issue or does Fink's python do something that the framework install > cannot do? Or to phrase it differently, what should It's not so much the framework build as the fact that the binary installers have Tkinter set up for Tcl/Tk-Aqua. Fink python is set up for Tk/X11. Tcl-Aqua still has some bugs, and apparently also some more serious issues with multi-threading user interfaces. An example of a program that doesn't work with Tk-Aqua is PyMOL (pymol.sourceforge.net). > change to make you drop Fink or Darwinports for python stuff? And I > mean that *very* broadly, I'd like to make MacPython the obvious > choice for anyone that works with python on the mac. That's a good plan - I'd love to get rid of Fink if I could! Konrad. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
