[Pythonmac-SIG] Over My Head

[Richard Gordon]

I'm in over my head, but not like you may be thinking (at least for 
the purposes of this message).

The short(er) version is that when Darwin was announced, I took a 
look at the pieces available for distribution and noticed that while 
Perl was included, Python was not. So, I wrote to Developer Feedback 
and pointed out this omission with a suggestion that they include 
Python in Darwin and in OS X Server if it has been omitted from the 
shipping product.

In due course, I got a perfunctory thank you in reply, but then got 
another message yesterday from the Darwin Product Manager, Ernest 
Prabhakar <prabhaka@apple.com>, that invited me to submit a 
compatible version of Python that will run under Darwin because they 
hadn't had a chance to explore that.

That's where the "over my head" part comes in since my knowlege of 
Python is pretty rudimentary at this point regardless of platform. I 
told him that I would pass this request on to you guys in the belief 
that somebody here was probably already playing with Darwin and that 
this was the most Mac-centric source of Python knowledge.

So, there it is. It did not occur to me to mention to him that 
mkLinux DR3 ships with Python and maybe that version is already 
suitable for use with Darwin and/or MacOS X Server. Is that the quick 
fix or what? If so, I'll pass the info along and let them figure it 
out, but if not then could one of you guys who is willing to 
evangelize Python maybe get up with Ernie about this? Thanks.

Richard Gordon
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