<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 11, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">This whole gigantic discussion is about making MacPython more <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">friendly.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>To do so, we must consolidate our efforts and offer <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">documentation and support for One Way To Do It, which is going to be <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">a framework build of Python 2.4.2 with a lot of hacks to make it <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">universal.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>(--and easy -- e.g., auto-fixing of the PATH . . .)<DIV><BR><DIV>I agree whole-heartedly that this is the core of what we're trying to do.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So Darwinports, Fink, and (dare I say it) even ActiveState are really beside the point. All worth a mention, somewhere in something pointed to from the main page, but clearly off the trail we're trying to make clear.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Charles</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>