[Pythonmac-SIG] Clean Tiger install and Python 2.4.1?

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 3, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Russell Finn wrote:

> Allow me to chime in with a couple of related questions:
>
>
>> On May 2, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Lee Cullens wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Specific to this list, I will be putting up Bob's MacPython 2.4.1
>>> afterwards.
>>>
>
> Is the 10.3 build of MacPython 2.4.1 still appropriate to install on
> Tiger?  In particular, it looks (from doing Show Files in Installer)
> that it will apply the PantherPythonFix, and I understood that to be
> unnecessary (possibly undesirable?) in Tiger.

Yes the 10.3 build of MacPython 2.4.1 is still appropriate.

It looks like it does have PantherPythonFix embedded in it, but  
that's harmless.  It shouldn't do that, but I didn't write the crazy  
package-builder scripts for MacPython :)

> On 5/2/05, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> You will want TigerPython24Fix if you plan on building any extensions
>> yourself, because Python 2.4 as configured with GCC 3.x has some GCC
>> 4 incompatibilities, and that package will patch up the header so
>> that GCC 4 will work.
>>
>
> ... but this cannot be installed until after 2.4.1 is installed,
> right?  (It won't install at the moment, and I haven't installed 2.4.1
> yet pending the previous issue.)

It is a patch for Python 2.4.1, so it is necessary to have 2.4.1  
installed.

-bob