[Pythonmac-SIG] Plugin for MacPython1.5b3

Bill Bedford billpy@mousa.demon.co.uk
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:34:51 +0100


At 11:43 pm +0100 14/04/98, Just van Rossum
wrote:
~At 19:42 +0100 4/14/98, Bill Bedford wrote:
~>At 4:59 pm +0100 14/04/98, Just van Rossum
~>wrote:
~>
~>~
~>~Cool! I'll check it out. One minor suggestion: since this is a mac based
~>~forum, I think .tar.gz are not that appropriate: not all mac users have
~>~tar/gzip utils. I'd suggest using StuffIt in the future.
~>
~>errr   Just,    Stuffit expander 4 un-tars and un-gzips...............
~
~I just grabbed 4.5, and it does not expand tar.gz without additionally
~purchasing an enhancement kit.

Opps sorry about that.....

Still, what is the point in using tar.gz
~when the archive contains stuff that only works on a Mac anyway?

Especially as there is a binhexed stuffit file in the tar.