[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 2.4

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 3, 2004, at 10:55, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On 3-dec-04, at 15:23, Jack Jansen wrote:
>
>>
>> On 3 Dec 2004, at 10:56, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>> It would also be possible to monkey-patch the 2.3 install. IIRC I've 
>>> posted one way to do a long time ago. That message should be in the 
>>> archives.
>>>
>>> The advantage would be that you do not have to patch files in 
>>> /System, we could even use this to install include files outside of 
>>> /System while keeping them functional. The disadvantage is that my 
>>> approach seems to induce vomitting in some people ;-)
>>
>> I assume that was me:-)
>
> Me too :-)
>
>>
>> But I can't for the life of me remember how you did it. Do you have a 
>> reference?
>
> I don't have a reference, but I do remember what I did:
>
> 1) Create a .pth file containing::
>
>      import sys; sys.path.insert(0, '/Library/Python/2.3/python-fixes')
>
> 2) In /Library/Python/2.3 create a distutils package with only a 
> __init__.py.
>
>    That __init__.py should extend/set the __path__, to make sure we 
> can import the
>    rest of distutils. It should then 'execfile' the real 
> distutils.__init__ and finally
>    patch up distutils.
>
> This is a gross hack, but is a relatively clean way to perform 
> non-invasive surgery on an existing python installation. At least it 
> doesn't requiry people to use the shell and sudo (both of which are 
> scary for lots of peoply).
>
> I'll see if I can build a working example for this tomorrow.

It would be easier to just build a .pkg installer that has a preflight 
script that checks for OS X 10.3.x, and does the patch.

-bob