[Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

[Brad Knowles]

Jack Jansen wrote:

> there's only one potential problem and that's the PPC/Intel issue. If 
> you have a PowerPC mac (or you can live with running Python under 
> Rosetta on an Intel Mac) I would first try to download a binary 2.3.X. 

There's a problem here.  If you go to the python.org page for the latest 
release of 2.3.x (see <http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3.7/>), it 
tells you that this is a source-only release, and anyone needing a binary 
release should use 2.3.5 (see 
<http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3.5/>).  However, there are no 
binary releases for Macintosh that are listed -- Windows gets one, but 
everyone else is supposed to use the source archive.

Going to the Mac Python page at <http://www.python.org/download/mac/>, 
there's pointers for newer binary installers (using Python 2.4.x) based on 
which OS you're running (see <http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/>), but 
nothing for the older binary installers (based on Python 2.3.x).  Looking in 
the "Legacy Packages" at <http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/legacy.html>, I 
don't see any older binary installers.


So, it looks like I have no choice but to try to do a source install of 
Python 2.3.7.

Blargh.

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