[Python-Dev] python 2.4 and universal binaries
Hi, I'd like to backport the patches I've done to the trunk regarding universal binary support for OSX and endian issues in Mac specific modules. The last set seems easy enough, all of those are clearly bugfixes. I'm not sure if the universal binary patches are acceptable for backport (and specifically the change to pyconfig.h.in) The rationale for this is simple: Apple seems to pick up a recent copy of python for every new major release of OSX (Python 2.2.x for Jaguar, Python 2.3.0 for Panther, Python 2.3.5 for Tiger) and is therefore likely to use Python 2.4.x for the next release of the OS. The official python 2.4 tree currently doesn't support building univeral binaries. Given that Apple ships a broken universal build of python 2.3 with the new intel macs I'm worrying that they won't fix this for their next OS release, which would increase the support load on the pythonmac-sig list. By adding support for universal binaries to python 2.4 we'd reduce the change for a broken python in the next OSX release. Ronald ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] python 2.4 and universal binaries
Sounds like an all-round good plan to me. On 5/11/06, Ronald Oussoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to backport the patches I've done to the trunk regarding universal binary support for OSX and endian issues in Mac specific modules. The last set seems easy enough, all of those are clearly bugfixes. I'm not sure if the universal binary patches are acceptable for backport (and specifically the change to pyconfig.h.in) The rationale for this is simple: Apple seems to pick up a recent copy of python for every new major release of OSX (Python 2.2.x for Jaguar, Python 2.3.0 for Panther, Python 2.3.5 for Tiger) and is therefore likely to use Python 2.4.x for the next release of the OS. The official python 2.4 tree currently doesn't support building univeral binaries. Given that Apple ships a broken universal build of python 2.3 with the new intel macs I'm worrying that they won't fix this for their next OS release, which would increase the support load on the pythonmac-sig list. By adding support for universal binaries to python 2.4 we'd reduce the change for a broken python in the next OSX release. Ronald ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] python 2.4 and universal binaries
Ronald Oussoren wrote: The rationale for this is simple: Apple seems to pick up a recent copy of python for every new major release of OSX (Python 2.2.x for Jaguar, Python 2.3.0 for Panther, Python 2.3.5 for Tiger) and is therefore likely to use Python 2.4.x for the next release of the OS. The official python 2.4 tree currently doesn't support building univeral binaries. Given that Apple ships a broken universal build of python 2.3 with the new intel macs I'm worrying that they won't fix this for their next OS release, which would increase the support load on the pythonmac-sig list. By adding support for universal binaries to python 2.4 we'd reduce the change for a broken python in the next OSX release. It's fine with me to backport this. Please be aware, though, that the release of 2.4.4 is likely to occur *after* the release of 2.5.0. Not sure when Apple decides to freeze the Python version for the next OS release, but if they really chose the most recent one by policy, that will be either 2.5.0 or 2.4.3. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] python 2.4 and universal binaries
This is fine with me. Note that 2.4.4 won't be out until after 2.5.0, so it's a couple of months off yet. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
