[Pythonmac-SIG] I think I'm in buzzword hell...

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

At 11:24 PM +0200 10/21/02, Jack Jansen wrote:
>On maandag, oktober 21, 2002, at 01:51 , Michael Hudson wrote:
>
>>Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacobkm@cats.ucsc.edu> writes:
>>
>>>MachoPython: [...]  This version of Python runs only on MacOS
>>>X, and does not include the nifty Mac-only stuff that MacPython does.
>>
>>I don't think the second half of this sentence is true, is it?  I know
>>I've written resource editing stuff and run it with the mach-o python
>>I built myself...
>
>You're right, I missed the "not" in that sentence.
>
>Or to be precise, MachoPython 2.2.X has 90% of the goodies, but 
>unfortunately misses one or two that are needed to run the IDE, and 
>iirc the IDE itself has a few problems too. MachoPython 2.3a0 is 
>almost feature-complete (BuildApplication is the only missing piece, 
>I think).

Cool... that's something I'm very glad to be wrong about.

So this makes it sound like we're very close to a unified Python that 
builds right "out of the box" -- is that right?  How far is a unified 
MacPython that builds with a standard "configure; make; make install"?

Jacob