Upgrade Python on a Mac

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Mar 16 08:52:45 EDT 2009


In article <slrngqu5nk.2c4.grahn+nntp at frailea.sa.invalid>,
Jorgen Grahn  <grahn+nntp at snipabacken.se> wrote:
>
>\begin{whine}
>
>Why is Python a "Framework" under "Libraries"?  In any other Unix, a
>third-party Python installation would have been placed in /usr/local/
>or /opt/.  Also, editing a user's dotfiles while installing software
>seems cruel and unusual -- to that user, and to the other users for
>whom the newly installed software "doesn't work".
>
>\end{whine}

Because that's what Apple wants.  :-/
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