[Pythonmac-SIG] Install location

Timothy Reaves treaves at silverfieldstech.com
Mon Apr 10 02:39:52 CEST 2006


On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Apr 9, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Timothy Reaves wrote:
>
>> 	Why is it the installer at http://www.python.org/download/releases/
>> 2.4.3/ install into /Applications ?  Why does it not install as a
>> framework?  ActiveState Python does, although they still user /usr/
>> local/bin for the links.
>
> It puts IDLE, BuildApplet, and the other applications that ship  
> with MacPython in Applications.  This is not unusual.
>
> It DOES install as a framework.
>
> It DOES by default put symlinks in /usr/local/bin.
>
> The slight differences in the way ActivePython behaves are  
> deviations on their part.
>
> -bob
>

	O.K.  I must have misread the ReadMe.txt.



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