[Pythonmac-SIG] Let's do it completely different!

[Jack Jansen]

On Friday, Oct 25, 2002, at 03:32 Europe/Amsterdam, John W Baxter wrote:
> Before we get too optimistic about what Apple might do in the way of
> including what we want as the Python installation, keep in mind we're
> talking about the same Apple whose QuickTime 6.0.2 installer is broken 
> on
> machines whose owners have replaced the supplied Perl 5.6.0 with the 
> newer
> Perl 5.8.  (Reference http://www.macfixit.com for October 24.)

An error like this will probably occur only once (like the unquoted 
filename error you referenced later in the post). Apple engineers are 
getting used to the fact that they have preflight and postflight 
scripts that they can write in any language that is installed. Now that 
they've shot themselves in the foot with QT 602 they know that unix 
users can and will install other versions of Apple-supplied scripting 
languages they will cater for it (either by testing their scripts with 
a couple of newer releases of the scripting language, or by enforcing 
that the correct version of the language interpreter is chosen).
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