[Pythonmac-SIG] Question about plans for Python 2.3

[Jack Jansen]

On donderdag, nov 7, 2002, at 20:02 Europe/Amsterdam, Russell E Owen 
wrote:

> After various trials with trying to get 2.2.2 built to talk to aqua 
> Tk, I have a question about plans for 2.3.
>
> I assume 2.3 will be able to work with aqua Tk. If so...can one 
> installation (i.e. one interpreter) be used both for that purpose and 
> also for other typical Python development? It seems as if 2.2.2 may 
> want a copy in /Library/Frameworks/... for aqua Tk development and 
> somehow may want another copy in /usr/local/bin for normal unix-ey 
> stuff. Naah, that can't be right.

The framework Python can be used for normal unix-type development work. 
Simply put a symlink to /Library/Frameworks/..../bin/python into, say, 
/usr/local/bin/python.

In 2.2.2 some key parts may be missing, though. Let me know if things 
don't work, they should be easy enough to backport from 2.3.
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