Re: [Pyobjc-dev] buildapplication strawman

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

bb...@ma... wrote:

> I don't understand the benefits of the framework build.   It requires 
> additional maintenance within the Python source trees and doesn't seem 
> to add any capabilities that couldn't be done with a 'regular' build of 
> Python?   I would think there is a tremendous amount of value in 
> eliminating the number of differences between the build of Python on 
> one platform vs. others.  Certainly, the Mac platform warrants the slew 
> of Mac specific modules that are in their, but modules build relatively 
> cleanly without requiring changes to and ongoing maintenance of 
> configure.in....

Hear, hear and hear.

I'd suggest to install all Mac stuff in <prefix>/lib/python<version>/plat-darwin
(or /plat-mac if the install procedure allows that).

Just