On Sunday, October 30, 2005, at 07:20PM, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 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!
I don't really care about 10.5 at this point in time, but you do make a valid point. The current situation seems to suggest that Apple's version would have a directory at /Library/Python/2.4/site-packages and symlink to this in the framework. That's probably better than my suggestion, but would also be incompatible with the current official installer which is a no-no. I won't include /Library/Python/2.4 in the installer. BTW. Actually building the beast sucks, the script for building the documentation index is not very reliable: it crashes while waiting for the indexer to finish. Luckily I can compensate for this in the build script. Ronald > >-bob > > > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
