[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing MacPython-Panther on Tiger...

[james hughes]

I am clearly trying to something that should not work, but here goes... 
Any help will be gratefully appreciated. Thanks


On Aug 15, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Rodney Somerstein wrote:
> According to public information (Apple has released the code), the
> build of Tiger as of WWDC uses Python 2.3.3.  There is, of course,
> plenty of time for this to change.. but you can assume at least 2.3.3.
> Since it is the same major version of Python, anything compiled against
> the Python 2.3.0 on Mac OS X 10.3 should just work with 10.4's (and
> vice versa, to a large extent).

I would like to confirm that the developers release of 10.4 is indeed 
2.3.3.

% python
Python 2.3.3 (#1, Jun 12 2004, 21:10:18)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1656)] on darwin

The log from the install is

Sep  9 08:14:48 : Installer App Built on Jun 21 2004 at 17:47:34
Sep  9 08:14:48 : Hardware Model: PowerBook5,1 @ 999 MHz, 2048 MB
Sep  9 08:14:48 : Running OS Build: 8A171
Sep  9 08:14:48 : ATS:OFAGetFontMetrics is obsolete, please call 
GCGetStrikeInfo instead. (this is most likely #3636855.  Unless you are 
making the call directly, please ignore this message.)
Sep  9 08:14:48 : MacPython-Panther Installation Log
Sep  9 08:14:48 : Opened from: 
/Volumes/MacPython-Panther-2.3-2/MacPython-Panther.pkg
Sep  9 08:14:56 : ========================================
Sep  9 08:14:56 : User chose Easy Install
Sep  9 08:14:56 : Items to be installed
Sep  9 08:14:56 : 	MacPython-Panther: Install
Sep  9 08:14:56 : ========================================
Sep  9 08:15:02 : Creating temporary directory 
"/private/tmp/.Install-temp/.MacPython-Panther.pkg.23760"
Sep  9 08:15:02 : Removed existing directory at 
/private/tmp/.Install-temp
Sep  9 08:15:02 : Running Writing receipt for MacPython-Panther
Sep  9 08:15:05 : Finished Writing receipt for MacPython-Panther
Sep  9 08:15:05 : Running Extracting files from MacPython-Panther
Sep  9 08:15:06 : pkgExtractor[23768]: 2004-09-09 08:15:06.006 
pkgExtractor[23768] BomFatalError - cpio read error: bad file format
Sep  9 08:15:08 : Finished Extracting files from MacPython-Panther
Sep  9 08:15:08 : Install failed: Some files for MacPython-Panther may 
not have been written correctly.