[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 2.4

[David Reed]

On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:00, Samuel M.Smith wrote:
>
>> Would anyone care to post step by step instructions for building a 
>> framework version of Python 2.4
>> that will peacefully cohabitate with the built in OS X Python 2.3.
>>
>> Does it build out of the box from the source?
>
> Patch your config/Makefile of your existing Python 2.3.0 installation 
> (see a recent email of mine on the subject)
> Fetch 2.4 sources
>
> From the 2.4 source directory do the following:
>
> env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 ./configure --enable-framework
> make
> sudo make frameworkinstall
>
> You probably want to add /usr/local/bin early on in your path if you 
> haven't already, you may want to delete /usr/local/bin/python if you 
> want python 2.3 to be "the default", because there is also a symlink 
> named python2.4 that you could use.
>
> -bob
>

Can anyone explain or point me to something to read about the 
benefits/trade-offs of using the framework version (I'm a long time 
Linux/Solaris user, but new to OS X) vs. just a regular compilation?

Thanks,
Dave