[Pythonmac-SIG] How long until OS X Python is ready for prime time?

[Jack Jansen]

On dinsdag, dec 3, 2002, at 23:07 Europe/Amsterdam, Paul Berkowitz 
wrote:

> On 12/3/02 1:41 PM, "Jack Jansen" <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> wrote:
>
>> Cross-platform is out of the question with Cocoa, though. If that is
>> important to you you'll have to wait for either MacPython-OSX 2.2 or
>> MacPython-OSX 2.3, both scheduled to go to alfa in another month. (The
>> difference is that 2.2 will build on the Apple's pre-installed
>> /usr/bin/python).
>
> Jack,
>
> Didn't you say on your website that MacPython-OSX 2.3 would be 
> "uniting" the
> Apple pre-installed version with MacPython? (What does "uniting" mean?)
> Presumably that would be for a later version of OS X - OS 10.3 perhaps?

My current naming scheme is that MacPython-OSX 2.2 is going to be based 
in Apple's /usr/bin/python, with the Mac 2.3 (note: two.THREE) stuff 
grafted on top of that. So, the binary installer for this should be 
reasonably small, and I hope this is the thing that will win over new 
Python converts. MacPython-OSX 2.3 is going to be a normal 2.3 install, 
including everything. Initially I think we should do source only, and 
if we do binary too we have to decide whether this is going to be 
framework based or not, and where to install it (over /usr/bin/python 
or not, etc).

> Is there any chance that MacPython-OSX 2.2 would give Python scripters 
> more
> versatility in writing Python without I exceeding what users with the
> standard 2.2 install have for running the resulting scripts? Or is 
> that what
> might come with 2.3?

I'm not sure yet. There is an incredible amount of work, and as it is 
all of the integration type it is very difficult to share, which means 
I have to do it myself...
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