[Pythonmac-SIG] What is the future of Python on OSX?

[Tony Lownds]

What would you like? I'm still very interested in working on Tkinter. 
I'm intending on making an "install_IDLE" command for posting on 
sf.net (about 50% done with it). I share the impression of 
complication in Python MacOSX land, there are so many things in the 
air. AquaTk's last snapshot is really old and fixes bugs that are 
destined to be FAQs if it's the one people use. I have been assuming 
that Jack's 2.3 distro will be the leading distribution. He's been 
adding lots of build changes to CVS lately - probably just waiting 
for an Alpha. Jack, if I write an install_IDLE command, how likely 
would it be that IDLE could be included? How long is it before some 
alpha or pre-alpha releases?

If IDLE isn't included in Jack's distro, I will be producing a 
Tkinter add-on package which includes IDLE and the Tkinter demos. I 
don't find the current built-from CVS very easy to use yet (too many 
other apps take over my .py mapping I think) as a package writer - 
maybe if ~/Library/Python is added to a path so people could install 
by dragging and dropping.

-Tony



At 3:15 PM -0500 9/5/02, Rob Bedford wrote:
>Along this path I want to upgrade to Jaguar and use the installed 
>Python is there a compatible AquaTk?
>
>Thanks
>
>On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 03:08 PM, Kurt Marek wrote:
>
>>I'm pretty much a newbie to Python on the Mac. I notice that there 
>>are no less than three different distributions. Which one is going 
>>to turn into the 'default' version for OSX allowing both cli use 
>>and an Aqua TK IDLE? I've read through some of the posts in the 
>>archives which try to explain this issue, but it just seems to be 
>>getting more complicated. Is one of these distros taking the lead 
>>for offering mainstream Python on OSX?
>>
>>thanks,
>>Kurt
>>
>>
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