> > Sure it is. Just two packages, one for Intel, and one for PPC, and a > > preinstall script that selects the right one. > > who's writing that pre-install script? I've NEVER seen one. Ever. Then
I'd be willing to take a stab at it, if I had the various (non-flat) installers for the pieces. > ... if a package like PIL is going to distributing binaries, > they should be as widely usable as possible, and I'm betting that > Fredrik doesn't want to post 6 versions of PIL 1.6. for OS-X > > These are all the reasons I advocate MacPython2.5 -- it works on every > OS-X from 10.3.* to 10.5, PPC and Intel, and you can build > re-distributable apps with it. My problem with this approach is that it optimizes for the wrong audience -- it's for the developers, not for the users. The users really want to just install some package and get on with it -- they don't want to first pre-customize their machine for the developer's convenience by downloading MacPython and installing it. Yep, thanks to various factors, Fredrik needs a big installer for OS X, but I'm not convinced it's not doable as a single download. Bill _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
