[Pythonmac-SIG] Package installation

[Lee Cullens]

On Apr 18, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Dethe Elza wrote:

> <snip>
>   Another low-tech solution would be to start a wiki page with known 
> latest versions, urls to download the latest versions, and the above 
> script.  No reinvention of the wheel needed, just leveraging what we 
> already have in a different way.
>
> --Dethe
>

Isn't this what Bob is doing with http://pythonmac.org/packages/

Being new to this "playground" my concern is the next round of versions 
since they will likely be applicable by the time I get really 
productive.  Say if Apple goes to 2.4 then what about Bob's build, and 
subsequently Bob's(?) 2.5 (__future__) build?

I for one would like a more transparent and manageable versioning.  I 
don't want to move things around (I'll play by the rules), but I would 
like to be able to add new versions and remove old versions of Python 
and components combined.  As I understand it, such is what Bob did with 
2.4, but what he did is not overly obvious to me (I understand Bob is 
working within the conventions and constraints of the Mac OS X  
implementation) and the additional learning curve distracts from the 
finished app package (at my age without the time of youth one gets more 
focused :~).

My 2 cents,
Lee C