On Feb 8, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > Bob Ippolito writes: >> You're a UNIX user, you already know what you are doing, you don't >> count. >> >> Wrong. > > Wrong what? Are you saying that saying that I don't count is wrong?
That's out of context. I was replying to your statements in order. This one in particular: """ > (all?) of my Python programs continue to work against /usr/bin/python. > If apps don't, that seems to me to be a problem with the current state > of Python apps, not with Python. """ And the qualification for "Wrong" was: Extensions are extensions and they target a specific version of Python. There's nothing that can be done about that; the ABI changes. >> I'd have to guess that at least 95% of user-facing Python- >> based applications on Mac OS X are going to need at least one >> extension that doesn't ship with OS X. > > I think here you are talking about a Mac app bundle, right? I think > that's probably right. I'm talking about most user-facing applications, app bundles or otherwise. Do you really develop all of your applications using only stdin, stdout, sockets, and the stdlib? No SciPy, databases, PIL, etc? I can't think of a single moderately popular Python application that doesn't require at least one extension. I write very few applications that don't at least talk to a database, but maybe I'm missing something. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
