because the Doc Makefile has been changed to no longer download sphinx
and its dependencies, build-installer.py now requires that there be an
externally-supplied sphinx-build available.
As of 2.7.8, the 32-bit-only installer will support OS X 10.5
and later systems as is currently done for Python 3.x installers.
For 2.7.7 only, we will provide three installers:
the legacy deprecated 10.3+ 32-bit-only format;
the newer 10.5+ 32-bit-only format;
and the unchanged 10.6+ 64-/32-bit format.
Although binary installers will no longer be available from
python.org as of 2.7.8, it will still be possible to build from
source on 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems if necessary.
Some third-party projects, such as matplotlib and PIL/Pillow,
depended on being able to build with Tcl and Tk frameworks in
/Library/Frameworks. They were unable to build with the built-in
Tcl/Tk and/or execute correctly.
Make it easier for users to make use of the backup _tkinter linked
with the third-party Tcl and Tk frameworks in /Library/Frameworks.
The two tkinter variants are now installed in separate directories
under a new lib-tkinter. This allows per-user selection by
manipulating sys.path, directly or with PYTHONPATH. If this
proves useful, we can supply a more convenient user interface
to supply the paths. For now, this remains somewhat experimental.
64-bit/32-bit installer for 10.6+. It is no longer necessary
to install a third-party version of Tcl/Tk 8.5 to work around the
problems in the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5 shipped in OS X 10.6
and later releases.
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k
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r88004 | ned.deily | 2011-01-14 20:44:12 -0800 (Fri, 14 Jan 2011) | 4 lines
#10907: Update OS X installer build README to better reflect
current build practices.
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r88006 | ned.deily | 2011-01-14 21:29:12 -0800 (Fri, 14 Jan 2011) | 6 lines
#10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
(with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
support enabled).
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r88235 | ned.deily | 2011-01-29 10:56:28 -0800 (Sat, 29 Jan 2011) | 5 lines
Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
the system-provided Python. Also, properly guard a new Python 3 only
installer build step so that build-installer.py can stay compatible
with the 2.7 version. (with release manager approval for 3.2rc2)
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* Remove last traces of "MacPython"
* Add options to build different flavors of the installer
(still defaulting to a 2-way universal build that
runs on OSX 10.3)
