[Python-Dev] Python 3 - Mac Installer?

[Bill Janssen]

Nicko van Someren <nicko at nicko.org> wrote:

> 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.

+1

Bill