[Pythonmac-SIG] Optional BSD package is required for (useable) Python?

[Nicholas Riley]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:18:31PM -0400, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> On May 11, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Nicholas Riley wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:48:19PM -0500, Glenn Andreas wrote:
> >>This also means that the PDF workflow that they demoed at last years
> >>WWDC potentially won't work either - not sure what good claiming
> >>Quartz bindings for Python (listed on
> >>http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/creativeprofessionals.html)
> >>does if you can't run python scripts without the "optional" BSD layer.
> >
> >Also, Python is used to generate fax cover sheets in Panther.  Does
> >the built-in fax service not work without the BSD layer installed,
> >either?
> 
> Look at the script, IIRC it calls Python from inside the framework.  
> I'm sure PDF workflows can be done the same way.

I'm not on OS X now or I would have...

> I really don't think it's a big deal to simply tell the naive users who 
> go out of their way to deselect the BSD layer that they screwed up and 
> now they have to install it if they want to use your software.  It's 
> not that hard to determine the presence of the BSD layer.

So why can't packaged apps use the bundle Python too?  From some of
the other emails I got the idea that Python was unusable without the
BSD layer installed,

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=Nicholas Riley <njriley at uiuc.edu> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>