[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.3.4 Installation

[Bob Ippolito]

On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Samuel M.Smith wrote:

> On Sep 26, 2004, at 22:19, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> On Sep 27, 2004, at 12:01 AM, Samuel M.Smith wrote:
>>
>>> There isn't much on the new 2.3.4 Mac Python. Does 2.3.4 fix the  
>>> problem where you couldn't have
>>> any framework version but the one that came with OSX (in this case  
>>> 2.3 for Panther) ?.
>>
>> Yes the problem is fixed, but it's still present in the version of  
>> 2.3.0 that ships with 10.3.. so once you install any other framework  
>> build of 2.3 in the usual places, it will prevent any extension from  
>> linking correctly for 2.3.0.
>>
>> It's possible to monkeypatch Python 2.3.0 so it's not broken in this  
>> regard, though.  Here's a diff:
>>
>> ---  
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
>> python2.3/config/Makefile      Sun Mar  7 22:33:33 2004
> I am a little slow here, since the change is to the makefile, do I  
> remake python 2.3 in order for the patch to work? or is it only going
> to be applied when you make a new extension?

No, you do not remake Python 2.3 in order for this patch to work.  How  
could you, it's not shipped with source!  This Makefile is used by  
distutils as a 'configuration file' when building new extension  
modules.

-bob