In article <509d702e.10...@hastings.org>, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > On 11/09/2012 09:54 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 9 Nov, 2012, at 11:57, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > >> Hah! Should http://docs.python.org/devguide/ be updated to reflect this or > >> does this only affect Mac OS? (or should we correct the build so it > >> doesn't spit out a .exe?) > > How else should it be named, given that the default filesystem on OSX > > machines is not case sensitive. The binary cannot be named "python" because > > that clashes with the directory named "Python" in the source and build > > tres. > > Have we considered renaming the directory instead?
That's another solution. Another is to use the optional case-sensitive variant of HFS+ on OS X. But, really, this is a very minor one-time issue facing people doing development on Python itself. Normal users or Python don't run iit from a source directory, they run it from an installed location (make install) and then there is no such problem. It's not worth changing at this point. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ 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
