[Pythonmac-SIG] Let's discuss MacPython distributions for january

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 24, 2004, at 6:19 AM, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> writes:
>
>> On Dec 23, 2004, at 6:28 PM, Michael Hudson wrote:
>>
>>> Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> writes:
>>>
>>>> Second question: I think the solution to peaceful  coexistence is 
>>>> that
>>>> all Pythons adopt the solution sketched in Bob's mail
>>>> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2004-December/
>>>> 012292.html>. That discussion is rather technical, but what it boils
>>>> down to is that all Pythons (on 10.3) build their extensions with
>>>> "-undefined dynamic_lookup", thereby forestalling that extensions
>>>> inadvertently pull in a second, different, Python framework.
>>>
>>> Side question: do we know yet if the Python shipped with tiger will
>>> get this right?  I think this is checkable by people not under NDA,
>>> but if not at least those people who have seen Tiger previews can
>>> think about it :)
>>
>> They got it right in the Python 2.3.3 that was posted along with the
>> Darwin 8.0b1 (?) sources, I'm pretty sure I pointed this out several
>> times.
>
> Quite possibly...
>
>> There is no reason to believe they will screw it up between then
>> (WWDC) and now :)
>
> Except that I tried to look for evidence of this in the WWDC source
> drop last night before posting and failed to find it... oh, is it in
> configure.ed?  That seems a strange place to hang it, but oh well.

I'm not going to bother looking again, but it was patched somewhere, 
and it linked extensions correctly.

-bob