Among other issues, the Apple-supplied 0.9.7 libs for the 10.5 ABI cannot
verify newer SHA-256 certs as now used by python.org services. Document
in the installer ReadMe some of the certificate management issues that
users now need to be more concerned with due to PEP 476's enabling cert
verification by default. For now, continue to use the Apple-supplied
0.9.8 libs for the 10.6+ installer since they use Apple private APIs to
verify certificates using the system- and user-managed CA keychain stores.
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.
This update makes sure that the installer won't write files
in /usr/local/bin by default. The installer also won't
replace /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Version/Current.
Both to ensure that the installer doens't break an existing
install of python 2.x.
This the build machinery on OSX to re-enable building (and installing)
PythonLauncher.app and IDLE.app.
This needs ports of fixes to Lib/distutils/util.py and Include/pymacconfig.h
to be fully functiontional, to be fully functional.
I also have a patch for Makefile.pre.in that I'll post on bugs.python.org
for review.
