[Pythonmac-SIG] Main Python on Mac version?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 18, 2005, at 7:19, Louis Pecora wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2005, at 18:15, Jack Jansen wrote:
>>
>>> MacOSX 10.3, no special requirements:
>>>     Use Apple-supplied Python with the MacPython Additions
>>
>>
>> Tell them to install  anyway -- or make it a forced component of 
>> MacPython Additions.
>
>
> As long as it doesn't hurt.  And maybe a simple explanation on what 
> PantherPythonFix does and why it's needed.  Might help people decide 
> (hopefully, not confuse them -- I'd like to know more).

It's a bugfix to distutils, so that when you compile stuff it has a 
higher probability of doing the right thing.  It's just a .pkg that you 
double-click on to install, nothing scary.

-bob