On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, David Cournapeau <da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> There's something unclear for me here : >> >> What is suppose to happen when you use Python 32bits on a 64bits machine, >> for Python distributions that get build or installed ? >> >> Do you end up in a mixed environment of 64bits distributions within a >> 32bits interpreter ? >> > > Hopefully not - you obviously cannot load 64 bits extensions in a 32 > bits interpreter. I don't know the details, but WoW64 virtualizes > everything to look like a 32 bits windows to 32 bits processes (the > registry is different, etc...). But you could imagine that independently > on whether the interpreter is 32 or 64 bits, you need to process things > differently on windows 32 and 64 bits (e.g. a 32 bits python on xp and a > 32 bits python on xp 64 may have different requirements). FWIW, the > user-case in scons was detecting Visual Studio.
The micro-language, though, is about the metadata fields like "requires" So do you have a use case where a Python distribution needs to use "64 bit (the machine)" in order to provide a different requires ? Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
