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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Monday, 28 July, 2003, at 01:45, Stuart Bishop wrote:

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

This is IMHO not a Mac-specific problem, especially if you look at it 
in a slightly more generic way. Now that system integrators ship Python 
as part of the OS (e.g. on MacOS X and Linux), there are actually 3 
levels at which packages can be installed:

1. As part of the Python core
2. As part of the OS vendor packages
3. As part of the local site packages

The last two are currently thrown together into 
$PREFIX/lib/python$VER/site-packages. This means that locally installed 
packages will be installed into "vendor-space" when using a vendor 
provided python. As an example, packages that install scripts will 
install these into /usr/bin on MacOS X 10.2. That's not an appropriate 
location.

Ronald


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