On Oct 30, 2005, at 8:36 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On Friday, October 28, 2005, at 09:09PM, Bob Ippolito > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >> On Oct 28, 2005, at 5:03 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> >> >>> On 27-okt-2005, at 23:37, Bob Ippolito wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Oct 27, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Samuel M. Smith wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Will there be a framework installer for python 2.4.2? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Not particularly soon unless someone else does it. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I can boot into 10.3 if necessary. How does one build the >>> "unofficial >>> offical" Python installer? I suppose by running the 'build' >>> script in >>> Mac/OSX/Dist. >>> >> >> To my recollection, yes. There are three caveats that I can remember >> though: >> >> 1. It does not make a pydoc symlink for /usr/local/bin, that should >> be fixed (a make frameworkinstall issue) >> 2. It might make a header file that won't allow extensions to compile >> on 10.4, check that first (that's what the Tiger fix is) >> 3. Something to do with the documentation and IDLE and/or PythonIDE >> might not work? I don't remember the details, and I never tried to >> fix it. >> >> >>> Do I need to install other software before trying to build the >>> installer? Waste springs to mind, BerkeleyDB is another one. >>> >> >> I would suggest having Waste, BerkeleyDB, readline and TclTkAqua >> installed when building it, and I would make sure that BerkeleyDB and >> readline are static so that there aren't any dylib dependencies there >> (Waste is only available static anyway). >> > > Another alternative is makeing sure that readline and BerkeyDB get > installed inside the framework. Building static libraries is > easier, and that's what I've done. > > I'm currently building the DMG. There is one problem though, the > script refers to 'setupDocs.py' for building the documentation, and > that isn't in the 2.4.2 source archive ... Never mind, I've found > the script, it is named 'Doc/setup.py'. > > One other thing: would it be wise to create /Library/Python/2.4 > with symlinks to relevant parts of the framework? I'm mostly > thinking of the directories "bin" and "site-packages". The reason > I'd like to do this is twofold: > > 1) listing /Library/Python/2.4/site-packages would be an easy way > to check what is installed. > 2) unless you use bdist_mpkg to install packages or have > a .pydistutils.cfg scripts will end up inside the framework, and will > theforefore be non-existant for most users. > > I had to patch the sources anyway, might as wel add this > improvement as well.
I don't think we should do this. In theory, it will conflict with 10.5 -- which is very likely to have a /Library/Python/2.4/site- packages which is a symlink to somewhere else! -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
