[Distutils] pythonv: let's also make sure the standard Python install includes an "isolated" python

[Jim Fulton]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>> None. Barry's been using Ubuntu too long and has forgotten that Mac OS
>> X is Unix. :)
>
> There's also the fact that Python on Mac OS X builds with a .exe
> extension;

Oh wow. In the build directory, it does have a ".exe" extension.

> I don't recall it getting installed that way, though.

Right. It's installed without the extension.

>  On a
> case-senseless filesystem, distinguishing the "python" executable from
> the "Python" directory in the sources requires that unfortunate
> extension.

So sad.

Jim

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