[Pythonmac-SIG] Clean Tiger install and Python 2.4.1?

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 3, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On May 3, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Russell Finn wrote:
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>
>> Allow me to chime in with a couple of related questions:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 2, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Lee Cullens wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>> Specific to this list, I will be putting up Bob's MacPython 2.4.1
>>>> afterwards.
>>>>
>>>>
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>> Is the 10.3 build of MacPython 2.4.1 still appropriate to install on
>> Tiger?  In particular, it looks (from doing Show Files in Installer)
>> that it will apply the PantherPythonFix, and I understood that to be
>> unnecessary (possibly undesirable?) in Tiger.
>>
>
> Yes the 10.3 build of MacPython 2.4.1 is still appropriate.
>
> It looks like it does have PantherPythonFix embedded in it, but
> that's harmless.  It shouldn't do that, but I didn't write the crazy
> package-builder scripts for MacPython :)
>
>
>> On 5/2/05, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
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>>
>>>
>>> You will want TigerPython24Fix if you plan on building any  
>>> extensions
>>> yourself, because Python 2.4 as configured with GCC 3.x has some GCC
>>> 4 incompatibilities, and that package will patch up the header so
>>> that GCC 4 will work.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ... but this cannot be installed until after 2.4.1 is installed,
>> right?  (It won't install at the moment, and I haven't installed  
>> 2.4.1
>> yet pending the previous issue.)
>>
>
> It is a patch for Python 2.4.1, so it is necessary to have 2.4.1
> installed.

... and I just updated TigerPython24Fix such that it undoes the  
Makefile mangling from PantherPythonFix.  It's up at pythonmac  
packages <http://pythonmac.org/packages/>.

-bob