On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 8-feb-2006, at 10:49, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> >> Given these caveats and limited resources, the vendor Python is >> absolutely irrelevant as far as I am concerned. If someone wants to >> deal with separate support and documentation for what ships with Mac >> OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.4, and Mac OS X 10.5 then have fun, but I am >> NOT interested in that. > > This is a very good reason for not pointing newbies to the system > python > on pythonmac.org: unless anyone steps up to *seriously* support the > system python there won't be properly packages extension packages for > the system python. > > I do support system python for PyObjC, but even there it is mostly > "lets check if it still works" around release time. For day-to-day > work > I'm using a framework installation of Python 2.4.
I "support" the system Python 2.3 for what I develop also, with the same rigor that you do. Before doing a release, I'll python2.3 setup.py test (or whatever is appropriate) and if no red flags come up it's out the door. I do not do any real testing with anything but a framework build of Python 2.4 on Mac OS X 10.4. This is probably more harm than help though, because it gives people less reason to use a supported distribution. Perhaps I'll stop bothering with Python 2.3 altogether. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
