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

[Alexandre Parenteau]

> The amount of code needed for all this isn't all that much. The
> real work is in two things:
> - deciding on a database format that is rich enough, but also
> small enough to actually be implementable in the 2.3 timeframe
> (a few months, I guess)
> - finding someone who will take responsibility of keeping the
> database plus the underlying installers up to date.

I suggest also looking at cygwin. It has a very complete update packager,
including mirrors handling and little dependencies, although it is still
lightweight and work on top of bzip/tar. http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin

Alex.

>> 
>>   - install the same GUI interfaces included in the
>>     standard installations of another platforms.  GUI
>>     apps should run on OSX just as they would on Linux
>>     or Windows.  For now this includes Tkinter.
> 
> But unfortunately AquaTk installation, on which Tkinter depends,
> is non-trivial
> at the moment:-(
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