Fwd: [Pythonmac-SIG] What is the future of Python on OSX?

[Tony Lownds]

With some CVS knowledge I can guide you through getting an IDLE that 
works. What I can't do is make a snapshot - I'm not set up to make a 
good featureful snapshot on a regular basis. Tk is the harder part - 
Python is easy to get/use from CVS. See 
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/7933/0/7986005/for Tk, 
and http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=5470 for Python. In a pinch 
my website has a version of the Tcl/Tk stuff, which I haven't tried 
since 10.1.

-Tony

At 5:17 PM -0500 9/5/02, Rob Bedford wrote:
>My motivation is that I am probably going to DC for an extended work 
>assignment and while the targets will mostly be UNIX and Windows I 
>want the option of working on my Mac at night trying things out.
>
>Currently I can use the Python that runs on XWindows with  the Fink 
>installer however the site says Fink is broke in Jaguar.  While I 
>would like to upgrade to Jaguar my internet connection and resources 
>could be spotty and I want to leave with the best option available. 
>So I figured I would ask for feedback via the experts ;-)
>>
>>On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 05:05 PM, Tony Lownds wrote:
>>
>>>What would you like? I'm still very interested in working on 
>>>Tkinter. I'm intending on making an "install_IDLE" command for 
>>>posting on sf.net (about 50% done with it). I share the impression 
>>>of complication in Python MacOSX land, there are so many things in 
>>>the air. AquaTk's last snapshot is really old and fixes bugs that 
>>>are destined to be FAQs if it's the one people use. I have been 
>>>assuming that Jack's 2.3 distro will be the leading distribution. 
>>>He's been adding lots of build changes to CVS lately - probably 
>>>just waiting for an Alpha. Jack, if I write an install_IDLE 
>>>command, how likely would it be that IDLE could be included? How 
>>>long is it before some alpha or pre-alpha releases?
>>>
>>>If IDLE isn't included in Jack's distro, I will be producing a 
>>>Tkinter add-on package which includes IDLE and the Tkinter demos. 
>>>I don't find the current built-from CVS very easy to use yet (too 
>>>many other apps take over my .py mapping I think) as a package 
>>>writer - maybe if ~/Library/Python is added to a path so people 
>>>could install by dragging and dropping.
>>>
>>>-Tony
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>At 3:15 PM -0500 9/5/02, Rob Bedford wrote:
>>>>Along this path I want to upgrade to Jaguar and use the installed 
>>>>Python is there a compatible AquaTk?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 03:08 PM, Kurt Marek wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I'm pretty much a newbie to Python on the Mac. I notice that 
>>>>>there are no less than three different distributions. Which one 
>>>>>is going to turn into the 'default' version for OSX allowing 
>>>>>both cli use and an Aqua TK IDLE? I've read through some of the 
>>>>>posts in the archives which try to explain this issue, but it 
>>>>>just seems to be getting more complicated. Is one of these 
>>>>>distros taking the lead for offering mainstream Python on OSX?
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks,
>>>>>Kurt
>>>>>
>>>>>
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