[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

[Jack Jansen]

On 3 jan 2008, at 14:22, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> Now that there are several people that want to support Apple's build  
> of python: how do we go forward from here?
>
> I think we should start a small project for "MacPython Addons", this  
> project will install:
>
> * Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral  
> binaries (32-bit only at first)
> * (possibly) hotfix to ensure that you can install '-fat-' eggs on  
> 10.5
> * /Applications/Python-2.5/IDLE.app


I think that for "true" end users Idle is the only serious omission.  
The first one is really for developers only, and the second one  
doesn't really become important until such fat eggs become widely  
available (which they are not right now, IIRC).

Hmm, idea to keep this manageable: how much work would it be to create  
tiny installers for each of these hotfixes, and then have a umbrella  
installer that encompasses all of these? That way, as new problems  
surface the only work would be to create a hotfix installer for that  
single problem and do a tiny update to the umbrella installer.
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