[Pythonmac-SIG] updating Panther to Python 2.3.3

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Sun Feb 22 09:58:29 EST 2004


>>>>> John Miller <jmillr at umich.edu> (JM) wrote:

JM> I think this general topic was recently discussed, but I don't recall  the
JM> following strategy being mentioned so I'd like to bring it up for
JM> feedback. My goal is to *replace* Apple's Python with the latest  version
JM> with everything exactly as it is now (except updated, of  course). 

You can't. There is at least the CoreGraphics module for which no source
code is available and the binary may not work properly with your new
version. It was said that some system scripts depended on this.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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