[Python-Dev] [Pydotorg] Should we help pythonmac.org? (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Tue Aug 19 03🔞25 CEST 2008

I strongly recommend that we NOT make macports.org the main, official Mac OS X version of Python. Secondary is fine, but not primary. Macports is what the name says: it's a system of Mac ports of Linux packages, mostly command-line only.

I agree with David about this.

The official Mac Python should be an OS X application, with an icon, living in /Applications, ideally with a Mac-standard editor app (the 2.5.1 I have has IDLE), etc.

No, probably not. Frankly, I think the official Mac Python should be (and is) /usr/bin/python, the version that Apple ships with the system. I always try to make my stuff work with that Python, instead of installing a different version, which in my experience usually leads to grief somewhere down the road.

Bill

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