> Guido van Rossum wrote: >> Alternatively, I just got mail from Bob Ippolito indicating that he'd >> be happy to hand over the domain to the PSF. It's got quite a bit more >> on it than Python distros, and it's a fairly popular resource for Mac >> users I imagine. However macports.org seems to have more Python stuff, >> and has a more recent version of 2.5. (2.5.2). Perhaps we should link >> to macports.org instead?
I strongly recommend that we *NOT* make macports.org the main, official Mac OS X version of Python. Secondary is fine, but not primary. Macports is what the name says: it's a system of Mac ports of Linux packages, mostly command-line only. Those who want/need it know about it or will find it easily, while those who don't need it would only be confused by it. The official Mac Python should be an OS X application, with an icon, living in /Applications, ideally with a Mac-standard editor app (the 2.5.1 I have has IDLE), etc. Unfortunately, I can only recommend. I don't know anything about building Mac apps. -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com