[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. 
> My guess is that there's a 90% chance that it works. The issue might be 
> finding compatible binary installers for Tcl/Tk and wxPython.

My desktop machine is a PowerMac G5 (PPC), running Mac OS X 10.5.  And I 
figured that wxPython and Tcl/Tk Aqua might have to be re-installed and 
pointed to the back-ported Python 2.3 installation, but I figured I'd cross 
that bridge when I came to it.

> If the binary installer doesn't work just build the source.

My primary concern is (was?) that the older binary builds are talking about 
things like Mac OS X 10.3 or Mac OS X 10.4, and I don't know what may have 
changed between 10.3/10.4 and 10.5 that might cause them to break.

>                                                              BUT (large 
> but, here): don't try to build for Intel, only for PPC.

This is a case where I don't care about Intel, so that's not a problem.

Now, when my new machine arrives, then I'll care about Intel, but by then 
maybe Access Grid will have been updated to work with Python 2.5, and I 
won't have a problem.

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