[Python-checkins] r51804 - python/branches/release25-maint/Mac/README
ronald.oussoren
python-checkins at python.org
Thu Sep 7 14:00:44 CEST 2006
Author: ronald.oussoren
Date: Thu Sep 7 14:00:43 2006
New Revision: 51804
Modified:
python/branches/release25-maint/Mac/README
Log:
Remove one glaring error and update several version numbers.
Modified: python/branches/release25-maint/Mac/README
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/release25-maint/Mac/README (original)
+++ python/branches/release25-maint/Mac/README Thu Sep 7 14:00:43 2006
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
This directory contains a Makefile that will create a couple of python-related
applications (fullblown OSX .app applications, that is) in
-"/Applications/MacPython 2.3", and a hidden helper application Python.app
+"/Applications/MacPython 2.5", and a hidden helper application Python.app
inside the Python.framework, and unix tools "python" and "pythonw" into
/usr/local/bin. In addition it has a target "installmacsubtree" that installs
the relevant portions of the Mac subtree into the Python.framework.
@@ -90,20 +90,16 @@
3. make install
This sequence will put the framework in /Library/Framework/Python.framework,
-the applications in /Applications/MacPython 2.5 and the unix tools in
+the applications in "/Applications/MacPython 2.5" and the unix tools in
/usr/local/bin.
Installing in another place, for instance $HOME/Library/Frameworks if you have
no admin privileges on your machine, has only been tested very lightly. This
can be done by configuring with --enable-framework=$HOME/Library/Frameworks.
-The other two directories, /Applications/MacPython-2.3 and /usr/local/bin, will
-then also be deposited in $HOME. This is sub-optimal for the unix tools, which
-you would want in $HOME/bin, but there is no easy way to fix this right now.
-
-Note that there are no references to the actual locations in the code or
-resource files, so you are free to move things around afterwards. For example,
-you could use --enable-framework=/tmp/newversion/Library/Frameworks and use
-/tmp/newversion as the basis for an installer or something.
+The other two directories, "/Applications/MacPython 2.5" and /usr/local/bin,
+will then also be deposited in $HOME. This is sub-optimal for the unix tools,
+which you would want in $HOME/bin, but there is no easy way to fix this right
+now.
If you want to install some part, but not all, read the main Makefile. The
frameworkinstall is composed of a couple of sub-targets that install the
@@ -111,7 +107,7 @@
There is an extra target frameworkinstallextras that is not part of the
normal frameworkinstall which installs the Demo and Tools directories
-into /Applications/MacPython-2.3, this is useful for binary distributions.
+into "/Applications/MacPython 2.5", this is useful for binary distributions.
What do all these programs do?
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