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

[Ronald Oussoren]

Now that there are several people that want to support Apple's build  
of python: how do we go forward from here?

I think we should start a small project for "MacPython Addons", this  
project will install:

* Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral  
binaries (32-bit only at first)
* (possibly) hotfix to ensure that you can install '-fat-' eggs on 10.5
* /Applications/Python-2.5/IDLE.app

In there future we could add other changes, such as a 'python64'  
command for running python in 64-bit code. IMHO this should be done  
only when we have patches python.org tree that enable 4-way universal  
builds on Leopard, otherwise we'd have a real risk of loosing these  
changes in a future version.

Ronald

On 2 Jan, 2008, at 21:33, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> Even though I've been an open source developer since long before the
>> word existed I find that I'm getting sick and tired of the reinvent-
>> the-world attitude that is far too common in the open source  
>> community.
>>
>> If I am new to Python on the Mac and I've played with Apple Python a
>> little, but as soon as I want to install one little add-on module I
>> have to first replace the whole existing Python with something new
>> (and not directly Apple-endorsed) I might just drop out. And at the
>> very least it's mightily inconvenient.
>
> Well said, Jack!  I think supporting/fixing the Apple-supplied Python
> should be a goal.  I certainly used the Tiger 'Apple' Python for
> everything, living with its various foibles, and I intend to do the
> same with Leopard.  I can see why cutting edge developers might want
> to have other versions installed (I've got 2.6 and 3.0 on my Leopard
> machine, for instance), but all my normal software is developed
> against /usr/bin/python.
>
> Bill

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