On 20 dec 2007, at 12:35, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > That's easily fixable. I'm thinking about reviving Jack's MacPython > addons idea: a small .mpkg that will install IDLE.app, a 64-bit > command-line interpreter and some small fixes (such as the distutiles > one). That should make Leopard's builtin python a lot more useable > without requireing people to basicly install the same version of > python that is already on their system.
I think this would be a very good idea, even if only from a "political" point of view. Even though I've been an open source developer since long before the word existed I find that I'm getting sick and tired of the reinvent- the-world attitude that is far too common in the open source community. If I am new to Python on the Mac and I've played with Apple Python a little, but as soon as I want to install one little add-on module I have to first replace the whole existing Python with something new (and not directly Apple-endorsed) I might just drop out. And at the very least it's mightily inconvenient. Also note that the chances that the distutils fix or the 64-bit fix are likely to affect me are exactly zero (the "newcomer me" from this paragraph, not the "flesh and blood Jack" me:-). -- Jack Jansen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
