[Pythonmac-SIG] Binary installer for MacPython-2.3rc2 available

[Stuart Bishop]

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On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 09:30  PM, Jack Jansen wrote:

> A binary installer for MacPython-2.3rc2 for Mac OS X 10.2 is available 
> at
> <http://www.cwi.nl/ftp/jack/python/mac/MacPython-OSX-2.3rc2-3.dmg>. 
> This will
> hopefully go out as 2.3 final some time next week.
>
> Please report any problems, preferably to pythonmac-sig at python.org, or 
> otherwise
> directly to me.

A distutils script that uses the 'scripts' directive will install
the scripts in /Library/Frameworks/Versions/2.3/bin

This directory is not on the path, and no documentation explains how to
*put* it on the path. The end result is that 3rd party python libraries
that install command line utilities don't work out of the box.

If we need to have scripts and stuff dual homed in
/Library/Frameworks/Versions/2.3/bin and /usr/local/bin, distutils
will need to be patched to maintain the symlinks (although I personally
feel putting anything in /usr/local/bin is a bad idea...). This of
course will not be possible for the 2.3.0 release.

- -- 
Stuart Bishop <zen at shangri-la.dropbear.id.au>
http://shangri-la.dropbear.id.au/

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