[Pythonmac-SIG] What to build binaries for???

[Christopher Barker]

Ned Deily wrote:
> In article <4B43D659.4090709 at noaa.gov>,
>  Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> Another poster on the numpy list has been bitten by the "must have the 
>> system python" issue with the binary installer, meaning the python.org 
>> build.
>>
>> 1) I thought I provided a patch a good while ago to update that message 
>> -- did that get lost in the shuffle?
> 
> Sorry, could you refresh my memory what that issue is?

The issue is the mpkgs (build with bdist_mpkg) designed for the 
python.org python give a coonfusing error message when you try to 
install them without that python present. It says somethign like:

"This package requires the system python"

Clearly, people usually think the "system" python is the one Apple 
provided, so confusion results.

It should say something like:

"this package requires the binary python version x.x from python.org"

I'm pretty sure I worked out a patch for that a good while ago, but 
maybe not - I did look recently, and it's not as easy as you might think 
-- that message is somewhat auto-generated.

-Chris

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