[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 2.4 (original) (raw)

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Fri Dec 3 16:55:46 CET 2004

On 3-dec-04, at 15:23, Jack Jansen wrote:

On 3 Dec 2004, at 10:56, Ronald Oussoren wrote: It would also be possible to monkey-patch the 2.3 install. IIRC I've posted one way to do a long time ago. That message should be in the archives.

The advantage would be that you do not have to patch files in /System, we could even use this to install include files outside of /System while keeping them functional. The disadvantage is that my approach seems to induce vomitting in some people ;-) I assume that was me:-)

Me too :-)

But I can't for the life of me remember how you did it. Do you have a reference?

I don't have a reference, but I do remember what I did:

  1. Create a .pth file containing::

    import sys; sys.path.insert(0, '/Library/Python/2.3/python-fixes')

  2. In /Library/Python/2.3 create a distutils package with only a init.py.

    That init.py should extend/set the path, to make sure we can

import the rest of distutils. It should then 'execfile' the real distutils.init and finally patch up distutils.

This is a gross hack, but is a relatively clean way to perform non-invasive surgery on an existing python installation. At least it doesn't requiry people to use the shell and sudo (both of which are scary for lots of peoply).

I'll see if I can build a working example for this tomorrow.

Ronald

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