[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing wxPython with ActivePython and OSX

[Charles Hartman]

On Apr 24, 2006, at 7:53 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

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> On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
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>> Thanks to Chris, Kevin, and Bob. Yes, I should have changed the  
>> thread name. I stayed with it because it's where Kevin posted the  
>> good news about wxPython.
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it awfully silly to have  
>> these competing versions around, with names and apparent pedigrees  
>> similar enough so that, for instance, if somebody stumbles onto  
>> this list asking about problems with "this new Universal binary of  
>> Python 2.4 I just installed," it won't take two rounds of messages  
>> even to find out what version it is? How anyone could guess that  
>> pythonmac.org/packages has the current best while the one at  
>> python.org/download/releases is obsolete, is beyond me. This is  
>> not doing any good for all the fine bring-in-the-newbies work  
>> that's been going on (revivified website, spanking new icons, etc).
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> Well no kidding.  I don't personally have access to the python.org  
> server and neither does Ronald.  I don't think either of us asked  
> for it to be posted there, it wasn't ready at the time.  I'm not  
> sure who's supposed to fix it either.

I've filed a site bug report on python.org.

Charles