Issue 11486: Add option to not install into /Applications - Python tracker

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Assigned To: ronaldoussoren Nosy List: erlendaasland, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren
Priority: normal Keywords: needs review, patch

Created on 2011-03-13 21:32 by ronaldoussoren, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin.

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issue11486.patch ronaldoussoren, 2011-05-17 15:56 review
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msg130765 - (view) Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-03-13 21:32
It would be nice if it were possible to install a framework installation from source without also installing files into /Applications.

This could be done by adding an option to configure --without-macosx-applications.

The primairy usecase for this is development: I have a rather large set of Python frameworks on my machine with different build options and all of those install a copy of of IDLE and other application bundles into /Applications.
msg136167 - (view) Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-05-17 15:56
This patch adds an flag to the configure script: --without-framework-applications.

When this flag is used 'make install' will not create /Applications/Python 3.3, and won't install IDLE.app and PythonLauncher.app
msg167027 - (view) Author: Ned Deily (ned.deily) * (Python committer) Date: 2012-07-31 18:43
That would be nice although if you use your documented trick in Mac/README:

    ./configure --enable-framework=/Users/ronald/Library/Frameworks

everything including the Applications directory is installed relative to the frameworks directory, so, in this case, /Users/ronald/Applications.  It seems to work really well.
msg394265 - (view) Author: Erlend E. Aasland (erlendaasland) * (Python triager) Date: 2021-05-24 19:40
Ronald, do you still wish to apply this? It should be easy to rebase this patch onto main.

If not, we should perhaps close this issue.