[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> "pythonw" invokes GUI applications, "python" invokes console
>> applications. When installing an extension, I don't type "pythonw
>> setup.py install."
>
> But you could.
>
> No, my conceptual problem is just that you shouldn't need that extra
> "w", and once you start explaining why it's there, there's no good
> place to stop.  You start bushwhacking into a thicket of MacPython
> complexity which scares people away.

If we recommend that the user installs a particular framework build  
of Python, we could distribute it such that python and pythonw are  
indistinguishable.  This issue then disappears.

-bob