No automatic link, since I neglected to mention the issue number in the checkin messages: 2.7: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a65a71aa9436 3.3: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/dc721f28f168 I deliberately *didn't* make the change in 3.2. As the choice of symlink vs hardlink is really more cosmetic than consequential, it didn't feel like an appropriate change to make in a maintenance release without a compelling reason (introducing a *new* link meant we had such a reason for 2.7, but that's not applicable to 3.2). Handing the issue over to Ned to confirm the OS X framework builds align with the PEP.