Python binary for MacOSX DP4

[Robert]

My company is getting me the newer cube with the Radeon in it. I will try
this when it arrives!

"John W. Baxter" <jwbnews at scandaroon.com> wrote in message
news:jwbnews-865397.18180216092000 at news.olympus.net...
> In article <8pvsme$pe0 at dispatch.concentric.net>, "Phlip" <no at spam.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Newsgroupies
> >
> > I could not locate a Python binary for what might be called Rhapsody.
> >
> > The one link I found was dead.
> >
> > Then I found a list server post claiming compiling the GNU project for
> > FreeBSDi was a slam-dunk.
> >
> > So I dunked BeOpen's Python, and got a "evil signal 11" exception.
> >
> > Other fora revealed this is a generic "out of memory" or "I'm so
confused"
> > exception and should not be fixed.
> >
> > I tried to compile Python 1.6, and this compiled many more modules
before
> > the russian roulette game ended.
> >
> > Then I tried 1.5.2, and it finished compiling. Only a few trivial hacks
to
> > the Makefile were required to let it install gracefully.
> >
> > Irregardful of all that passion, does anyone have a Python 2 binary for
> > Rhapsody they can slap on a site somewhere?
> >
> > 1.5.2 is just so 20th Century!
> >
> > --
>
> Ah, but DP4 is so obsolete (nearly 5,000 minutes already ;-)).
>
> Seriously, the much more interesting quest would by Python x.x on Mac OS
> X Beta.  (Which I can't experiment with, lacking the Beta and lacking a
> machine while will run it...my main machine (a 7300) won't do.  I *may*
> be about to buy a "Cube" and the Beta for use as a sandbox until I can
> phase it in to replace the 7300.  Then again, the notion that I can't
> afford it may prevail.)
>
>   --John
>
> --
> John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com