[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 2.4

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 6, 2004, at 4:52, Floris van Manen wrote:

>
> BI> Yes, also set the environment variables for make.
>
>
> Being a novice python programmer for at least some years to come, a
> simple question came up.
> How difficult would it be for the eminent mac python gurus to provide
> a python script (GetGoing.py :-) doing all the installation needed to
> install the new 2.4 version as a *replacement* for the pre-installed 
> 2.3
> version on osx 10.3 ?

Extremely difficult, because nobody who knows what they're doing is 
going to encourage you to replace *ANY* pre-installed Apple software.  
Touching files in /System and /usr (except /usr/local) is primarily 
reserved for Apple, and changing anything in there is almost guaranteed 
to break something.

Install it to the standard place, and change your $PATH such that 
/usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin.  Then when you type "python" you 
get Python 2.4.  That's probably what you actually want, anyway.

-bob