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This directory contains a Makefile that will create a proof-of-concept Mac OS X application for Python. The process is far from streamlined, and it will definitely change in future releases of Python, but I wanted to include this in the current distribution so people could play with it. To create a fullblown Python.app proceed as follows. 1. In the main Python source directory configure python with configure --enable-framework --with-suffix 2. Do a "make clean" if you did a previous build, then "make". 3. Install this as a framework with "make frameworkinstall". This puts a Python framework into /Library/Frameworks. 4. Come back here (Mac/OSX) and build and install the application, with "make install". 5. It is probably a good idea to add the Mac-specific modules to the framework, with "make installmacsubtree". This puts a MacPython lib directory into sys.prefix/Mac/Lib. Again, this is a temporary measure. You are now done. In your Applications you should have a "Python", with the icon being a falling 16 Ton weight with a shadow under it. You can drop Python scripts on this and the will be run, in a full-windowing environment. Note that you do not get sys.stdin, and that sys.stdout goes to the console (Use Applications/Utilities/Console to see it). Something to take note of is that the ".rsrc" files in the distribution are not actually resource files, they're AppleSingle encoded resource files. Jack Jansen, jack@oratrix.com, 6-Sep-01.