[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 10, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> If we get them a double-clickable installer that gets them at least
>> IDLE, then they're set and they don't have to learn UNIX in the  
>> process.
>
> I agree.  It looks like one good thing to do would be to build an
> installer that installs a regular App that's just a wrapper around
> IDLE (and uses the system Python).  People who just want to try Python
> but don't want to install a complete separate version could use this.
> Though it sounds like there are some technical issues about "just
> running" IDLE on 10.3 and 10.4.  Maybe this can't be done.

10.3 doesn't ship with Tkinter at all, so it can't be done there  
without also installing Tcl/Tk Aqua.  We'd have to document that for  
users of Mac OS X 10.3; I don't want to bundle it.

-bob