[Python-Dev] Python 3 - Mac Installer?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Jan 2 21:02:10 CET 2009


>> As far as I can tell the Carbon and MacOS modules are _only_ used in
>> the setIcon() function, which is used to give pretty icon to the
>> python folder.  Perhaps it might be better to have a fully Python 3
>> build system and loose the prettiness for the time being.
> 
> +1

-1. I think it is a good choice that build-install.py is written in
Python 2.x, and only relies on the system Python. For that matter,
it could have been a shell script. That way, you don't have to build
Python first in order to build it.

Regards,
Martin


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