Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> On Mar 6, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> We have a large number of PyQt apps on Linux for a special effect
>> studio.  We use PyQt apps to manage a large render farm for special
>> effects, examining artwork, playing back renders at high resolutions,
>> and other apps for lighting and compositing, etc.
>>
>> More of our users are using Mac's and want the same tools on their Mac
>> desktops, so we're starting to build the infrastructure to support them.
>>
>> I should also mention that all our Python code is written to Python 2.4,
>> so we can't use the system's 2.3 Python.  Also with 2.5 out, we'd like
>> to move to that for the increased performance.
>>
>> So several questions:
>>
>> 1) Would the Python maintainers be willing to take patches for a
>> framework install?
> 
> I'd make a new package and ensure that it does not have any conflicting 
> files with any fink python packages. There then does not need to be any 
> interaction with the current python maintainers.  Although Apple puts 
> symlinks from the framework back into /usr/lib etc, it is not necessary 
> for fink to do so. This will allow you to customize the python framework 
> build as necessary for your PyQt apps.

And presumably we can have this new Python still reference Python 
modules for the non-Framework build, as this would be ideal???  If not, 
then we could add a new Type:

Type:
Type: python (2.4 2.4-framework 2.5 2.5-framework)

Regards,
Blair

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