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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 19 Dec, 2007, at 23:21, Christopher Barker wrote:

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

That depends on what you mean by "support" ;-)

>>
>
> 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)

That's easily fixable. I'm thinking about reviving Jack's MacPython  
addons idea: a small .mpkg that will install IDLE.app, a 64-bit  
command-line interpreter and some small fixes (such as the distutiles  
one).  That should make Leopard's builtin python a lot more useable  
without requireing people to basicly install the same version of  
python that is already on their system.

My only problem in this regard is a complete lack of time to do this  
in :-(.

Ronald