Re: [Visualpython-users] History and Status?

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

Any idea why distutils isn't an answer to these problems? Is it the
dependencies in a source distribution on whether other libraries are
present? I read Jansen's note and it doesn't mention distutils at all.

Bruce Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur" <ajs...@op...>
>
> There is something hot off the press on Mac package installation issues:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2003-February/000337.html
>
> Jack Jansen is the main guy maintaining the Python for Mac distribution.
The
> Python community loves controversy. I only know about this because of a
> thread trying to talk Jack out of the naming he has decided upon for his
> Package Install Manager for Python: pimp. :)
>
> The Mac issues are  mostly however Greek to me - but pimp certainly sounds
> like something that should be explored as the possible solution to VPython
> Mac distribution issues.
>
> Art