On Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at 04:15PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 2) On OS X, the modification to the value returned by >> pkg_resources.get_platform() isn't correct for fat version of Python >> 2.5, as detailed in setuptools issue 19. To solve that, we're using the >> patch I submitted to the issue (with a couple recent changes). > >I think that using "fat" in the version string is wrong for >Mac OS X, since there are many ways to build fat binaries. > >Instead, the version string should include the details of >all included builds, ie. 'x86', 'x64', 'ppc', 'ppc64'. Maybe in the long run, but for now "fat" has a well-defined meaning for distutils: fat == ppc + x86_64. There is also a number of other variants, as described in the documentation for distutils. Ronald _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
