[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

[Christopher Barker]

Nehemiah Dacres wrote:
> so we're still not supporting Apple's shipped python?

Well, Apple does what Apples does. Every single version of python that 
they have shipped as had at least one bug (or misfeature), and they have 
never provided an update within an OS-X version. (For example, if 
nothing else, the Apple python with Leopard doesn't build Universal 
Binaries when you use setup.py)

Given all that, it's easier to just stick with an external Python that 
we, as a community, can have some control over. It's also one version 
that will run (and build extensions that run) on PPC and Intel, OS-X 
versions 10.3.9 - 10.5.*

A whole lot easier to support.

And I don't think macports is supporting Apple's Python either.

-Chris


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