On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com>wrote:
> > > On Sep 18, 2013, at 03:03 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> > wrote: > > Am 15.09.13 00:56, schrieb Ryan: > > +1. A 10.6-only build makes sense. > > > I'd like to support Russell's point: this could put a burden on everyone > releasing extension modules to also provide two binary releases, which > e.g. would then mess up downloads from PyPI. So -1. > > +0 on dropping 10.6 support from the binary installers as proposed > by Greg. > > > > Dropping support for 10.6 isn't really necessary, just build (carefully) > on a later release of OSX (preferably the last one to pick up the most > recent developer tools). > > I'll try to provide a more detailed response tonight, but the basic idea > is to use OSX 10.8, the current Xcode release and the OSX 10.8 SDK to do > the build. This is a supported configuration for building binaries that > target older OSX releases, but some care is needed with the configure > script for 3th-party libraries: those might pick up features that aren't > available in 10.6. > > Cool, that sounds like we should _really_ be doing. Best of both worlds and it'll give a much faster to build to everyone. Good luck! -gps
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