[Pythonmac-SIG] Versions, Frameworks, Linking, PantherPythonFix

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 23, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Just van Rossum wrote:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
>
>> If you want your Python app to work in perpetuity, you'd better bundle
>> a version of Python with it because one day OS X will presumably come
>> with 2.4 or 2.5.  This strikes me as being the same as any other
>> platform.
>
> I would _hope_ they'd still keep 2.3(.X) in there for b/w 
> compatibility.
> That's why there are versioned frameworks to begin with, no?

Well you don't see Python 2.2 or Perl 5.6 on Mac OS X 10.3.  I think 
there's a good chance it will be around for 10.4, but beyond that I'm 
really not sure.

-bob