[Pythonmac-SIG] Let's discuss MacPython distributions for january

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 23, 2004, at 6:28 PM, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> writes:
>
>> Second question: I think the solution to peaceful  coexistence is that
>> all Pythons adopt the solution sketched in Bob's mail
>> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2004-December/
>> 012292.html>. That discussion is rather technical, but what it boils
>> down to is that all Pythons (on 10.3) build their extensions with
>> "-undefined dynamic_lookup", thereby forestalling that extensions
>> inadvertently pull in a second, different, Python framework.
>
> Side question: do we know yet if the Python shipped with tiger will
> get this right?  I think this is checkable by people not under NDA,
> but if not at least those people who have seen Tiger previews can
> think about it :)

They got it right in the Python 2.3.3 that was posted along with the 
Darwin 8.0b1 (?) sources, I'm pretty sure I pointed this out several 
times.  There is no reason to believe they will screw it up between 
then (WWDC) and now :)

-bob