[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, I. Vinogradov wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:33:17 -0800
>  Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> It's the job of Fink or DarwinPorts to sustain their Python
>>  communities.  There are already too many choices, I'd really like to
>>  avoid even more confusion.
>
> Perhaps this could be mentioned on the Bill's page to the effect that
> it's discouraged to use those sources.

I wouldn't explicitly discourage it.. I would rather have the page  
state that it's focus is to recommend and support users of a  
particular framework distribution of Python, and that the information  
may not apply to other sources of Python such as from Fink or  
DarwinPorts.

>> The way that Python is used in such an environment is closer to how
>>  it is used on a Linux or BSD distribution, given that it has managed
>>  packages and is only usable from a shell.
> <snip>
>
> They are convinient in a sense that they provide one source for all  
> the
> extensions for mac. IIRC both are mentioned on SciPy installation
> instructions. Nevermind that on Tiger SciPy install is a whole ugly  
> can
> of worms.
>
> Cutting down on number of standards is a good thing in this case.

The extension problem (on win32 and Mac OS X anyway) is going to be  
fixed by setuptools sooner than later... it just needs some more time.

-bob