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So this relies on having a system version of python but there's no mention of that requirement anywhere in the repo...

I believe only ST 2 on OS X relies on the system python - 2.6 or whatever python happens to be in the path. Sublime 3 ships with python 3.3 on all platforms.

edit:

If you are asking about the Floobits plugin, ST 2 on OS X shells out to the system python (because of SSL).

It appears to shell out on windows as well because it needs select. But windows doesn't have a system version of python.

>Sublime 3 ships with python 3.3 on all platforms.

So does that fix that issue he says in the end is "still open", about select etc not being present on some platforms?

(I don't have Windows or GUI Linux available to check).

Importing select works in Sublime Text 3 on Windows. Unfortunately, many people still use ST2, since it's the default download on the Sublime Text website. It would make my life much easier if ST3 came out of beta.

Surely if they are devs they know they're not bound to the "default download".

I've been using ST3 dev builds for what, 2 years now? Rock solid all this time on OS X (with around 10 plugins). Only had one issue (high cpu load on search IIRC), that was corrected by going back to the ST3 beta for the 2-3 days it took for it to be fixed.

I'm in the same boat. I use ST3 as my primary editor and it's been quite stable.

The ST2 users are part of a significant chunk of developers who just use defaults. They use the default shell, default themes, default mail/calendar/IM client, etc. They don't toolsmith. Their motto is, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Considering the annoyance of dealing with unstable software, I can't blame them... much.

I added a comment on this page that Package Control patches the select issue on ST2 for Windows (and explains it a little), plus includes shims for _ssl on Linux with details about how it works.

No, ST2 does not use whatever happens to be in the path on OS X. It uses version 2.6 from the system Python.framework.

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