[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Mon Feb 13 00:09:19 CET 2006


On Feb 12, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

>>> It's not really a good idea, and it certainly has near zero chance
>>> of happening -- ever.  Asking Apple to move their Python
>>> interpreter is dead in the water.
>>
>> I sure hope so. /usr/bin/python has its uses.
>
> I wish someone would explain to me what /usr/bin/python can do that
> /usr/libexec/python cannot do.

It's standard, and that's how it currently works.  There is no good  
reason to change anything  Even if they did decide to change it, the  
change would simply cause us to do twice as much work for the next  
couple years to support both layouts.

-bob



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