[Python-Dev] Python 3 - Mac Installer?

Nicko van Someren nicko at nicko.org
Wed Dec 31 23:34:40 CET 2008


On 30 Dec 2008, at 13:45, Barry Scott wrote:
...
> Since I've been building 3.0 for a while now I looked at the script.
>
> build-install.py seems to have been half converted to py 3.0.
> Going full 3.0 was not hard but then there is the problem of
> the imports.
>
> Python 3.0 does not have MacOS or Carbon modules.
>
> Seems that there are two ways to go.
>
> Put back the Carbon and MacOS modules into 3.0.
> Use Python 2 to build the python 3 package.

As far as I can tell the Carbon and MacOS modules are _only_ used in  
the setIcon() function, which is used to give pretty icon to the  
python folder.  Perhaps it might be better to have a fully Python 3  
build system and loose the prettiness for the time being.

	Nicko



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