[Python-Dev] 2.3.5 schedule, and something I'd like to get in

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 5-jan-05, at 9:33, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> It doesn't for reasons I care not to explain in depth, again.  Search 
>>  the pythonmac-sig archives for longer explanations.  The gist is 
>> that  you specifically do not want to link directly to the framework 
>> at all  when building extensions.
>
> Because an Apple-built extension then may pick up a user-installed
> Python? Why can this problem not be solved by adding -F options,
> as Jack Jansen proposed?

It gets worse when you have a user-installed python 2.3 and a 
user-installed python 2.4. Those will be both be installed as 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. This means that you cannot use 
the -F flag to select which one you want to link to, '-framework 
Python' will only link to the python that was installed the latest.

This is an issue on Mac OS X 10.2.

Ronald