[Pythonmac-SIG] For your eyes only: MacPython 2.3 final

[Jack Jansen]

On woensdag, jul 30, 2003, at 20:02 Europe/Amsterdam, Bob Ippolito 
wrote:

> Panther 7B21 with the Panther 7B21 dev tools, AquaTclTk installed, 
> MacPython 2.3 "final"
> (Darwin Kernel is still Version 7.0.0b1)

Ok, great! I'll start a Panther database some time next week with this 
info.

And a few comments on your comments:
> 	PyOpenGL-2.0.1.04beta-source
> 		- Works, but:
> 			Apple's GLUT changes the cwd to the Resources directory of 
> Python.app when you glutInit (i forgot about this one)

This is standard silly behaviour from MacOSX glut, nothing we can do 
about it.

> 			I didn't get Togl, is this a TclTk battery or a PyOpenGL+_tkinter 
> thing?

I have never used it, but I think it's Tcl/Tk.

> 	PIL-1.1.4-source
> 		- Works, but:
> 			did not get jpeg (not already installed)
> 			did not get freetype (not already installed)
> 		- I'll make a source recipe that downloads and compiles 
> libjpeg/freetype and links these statically

I would say "don't bother". The binary installers are by far the most 
important, and I don't want to clutter PackMan with more than two 
different types of distribution types per package. Also, if at all 
possible I want to use the original source distribution. For pil-1.1.4 
this wasn't possible, because I probably made a mistake when I sent the 
last modifications to Fredrik, but this should be fixed for 1.1.5, and 
then we can get the normal source distribution again.

> 	_tkinter-2.3-binary
> 		- Works
> 		- I'll make a source recipe for this

Same here.

And the same would have been true for readline too, if it wasn't for 
the problem with the dynamic library.

If you can't wait to start work on PackMan I think the best thing to do 
is come up with binary installers for packages that aren't featured 
yet. You had a list last week that looked promising.

I think the best way to get this started is that you create a database 
somewhere, then I'll link to it on www.python.org/packman as a second 
experimental database. Then, as there is time (and demand) we migrate 
things to the primary database.
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