[Pythonmac-SIG] Python defaulting as a framework for OSX/Mach-O

[Tony Lownds]

Following up on an old thread...


At 9:42 AM -0700 4/19/02, Tony Lownds wrote:
>At 3:30 PM +0200 4/19/02, Jack Jansen wrote:
>>On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 09:11 , Alexandre Parenteau wrote:
>>
>>>The primary reason of my email is to push for defaulting the compilation of
>>>Python-Mach-O as a framework, so application on OSX can embed Python easily.
>>>It would be nice also to provide an installer of Python this way.
>>
>>I don't want to scare the unix users too much, that's the main 
>>reason for having the default build be the non-framework built. 
>>This results in a Python installation that's 100% familiar to them.
[...]
>>  Also, the framework build is still too convoluted ("make 
>>frameworkinstall" in stead of "make install", plus running make in 
>>Mac/OSX to create the .app and a few other things).
>
>Yeah, it's pretty convoluted. Perhaps the real reason for a 
>non-framework default build is not so much scaring the UNIX users 
>but scaring the maintainers of other UNIX build processes... every 
>change seems to convolute things a bit more.
>
>I'd really like to have the Mac/OSX/Makefile integrated into one 
>build command even if it's not "make install".

I've posted patch 557719 which does this.

>>I do, however, think that an installer with a framework-based 
>>Python would be a very good idea.
>
>Yes! For 2.3!
>

-Tony