OS X and Python - wxPython has forced a rehash of my approach

[Kevin Walzer]

hiaips wrote:

> 
> Outdated??? It's Python 2.4.3 (and they already have a build for
> 2.5rc1), so I'm not sure what you mean.
> 

There have been a couple of releases of Python 2.4.3 "universal" on OS
X.The first one was quietly posted for download from one of the
developers' .Mac account, and  announced only on the MacPython list,
with an invitation for feedback. It probably should have been tagged
"release candidate," but it wasn't. Someone grabbed it and posted it at
python.org.

A week or so later, a significantly faster/optimized release of Python
2.4.3 was announced on the MacPython list and posted for download at
pythonmac.org. That's the release that the Mac community considers to be
the "official" universal release.

It looks like the earlier release is what is available at python.org; it
hasn't been updated. That release was made on March 30, while the faster
release was made on April 7 (or thereabouts).

Once 2.5 is out, it will probably be moot. The "universal" build of
Python 2.4.3 is currently a fork from the main Python code base; the Mac
developers are concentrating on merging the changes in for the 2.5
release.  No further work is being done on 2.4.3 as far as I know.

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