[Pythonmac-SIG] a beginner's list

[Bill Janssen]

> > In addition, if you have your code running just fine and dandy under 
> > Apple's python, then you upgrade to 10.5, chances are that your app will 
> > no longer work, as Apple is likely to yank their python out from under 
> > you. If it were running with a user-installed Python, chances are it 
> > would keep working.
> 
> That's something the page should shout to the world about!
> (because I had no idea about this)
> 
> "The advantages of not using Apple's versions!"

You had no idea about it because it's not going to happen.  "Apple is
likely to yank their python out from under you"?  Come on, this is
absurd.  In 10.5, /usr/bin/python is likely to be Python 2.4 instead
of 2.3, but the odds are 9999 to 1 that it will be there, and the
Python community has taken great pains to make sure 2.4 is
backwards-compatible with 2.3.

We can only quote odds because none of us work for Apple, but still,
in my opinion -- what troll-bait!

Bill