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Re: [PYTHONMAC-SIG] Python 1.3.3 for Macintosh available.
by Jeffrey C. Ollie May 22, 1996

May 22, 1996

On Wed, 22 May 1996, Jack Jansen wrote: > > I could put together a leaner interpreter if people are interested, in > which I would leave out Tcl/Tk (and possibly other stuff, img and > stdwin come to mind). Let me know if there is interest in this. I haven't taken a look at the Mac Python yet (way too much real work for me to do) but how much use is being made of the shared library functionality available in the latest releases of the Mac OS? I know that this would probably tie the interpreter to newer releases of the operating system but it should make the interpreter itself much smaller as well as saving space if standalone applications are ever produced. -- Jeffrey C. Ollie ================= PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org =================

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Re: [PYTHONMAC-SIG] Python 1.3.3 for Macintosh available.
by Jack Jansen May 22, 1996

May 22, 1996

Recently, Ivan Herman <Ivan.Herman(a)cwi.nl> said: > Before I engage into complicated problems on my mac, just some questions. > > - I presume the (binary) distribution include all the library hierarchy > , too Correct. It also contains documentation, examples, etc, everything you need for a fully functional system. > - some of your earlier remarks on Tk made be a bit afraid (you know, it > is > slow and big). What happens on a mac 68K? Does the binary interpreter include > > large portions of Tk code, i.e., the interpreter will swallow twice as much > memory as before even if I use 'traditional', i.e., non-Tk tools? Or is there > > some dynamic link possibility on the 68K, too? Hmm. Tk should slow you down if you don't need it, but it *does* take up memory. I can't check runtime size at the moment (my Mac here is dead), but the disk footprint is 1.6Mb. I could put together a leaner interpreter if people are interested, in which I would leave out Tcl/Tk (and possibly other stuff, img and stdwin come to mind). Let me know if there is interest in this. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ================= PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org =================

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Problems with 1.3.any distributions
by Jack Jansen May 22, 1996

May 22, 1996

To whoever I had a conversation with over the last few days on the 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 distrubtions for PPC not working (sorry, I lost the messages otherwise I would have sent personal mail): purely by accident I found the problem. Since 1.3.1 Python contains QuickTime support, and due to an oversight on my side this means that Quicktime Powerplug is *required*. If you don't have it the MkPluginAliases scripts will fail to work. I will fix this for future distributions, for now you should just drop the Quicktime Powerplug into your system folder and you should be all set. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ================= PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org =================

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Python 1.3.3 for Macintosh available.
by Jack Jansen May 21, 1996

May 21, 1996

Folks, a new Python distribution is available, 1.3.3. It is available as either a 68K binary distribution, a PPC binary distribution or (new!) a source distribution. Get it from <ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/python/mac> and let me know what you think. If people could download it and try it that would be very helpful, I'm going to advertise it to a wider audience in a few days. Here's the highlights of the differences between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3: - Tcl/Tk support now uses final 7.5 and 4.1 distributions - Interfaces to Scrap, TextEdit and Waste (a textedit-on-steroids) added - Many new demo programs and some documentation -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ================= PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org =================

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