Russell E. Owen wrote: > Are there any tips or tricks to building 3rd party python extensions on > MacOS X 10.4 in such a way that 10.3 users can use them?
It can be done, but I think it's PITA > <http://pythonmac.org/packages/> has most or all the extensions I need, > but some of the ones I use are fairly outdated (especially numarray). So > another option is to contribute modern versions built on 10.3 before I > upgrade. But I'm not sure how practical that is; I only have 10.3/Python > 2.3 Installing 2.4.1 from undefined.org/python is pretty trivial. In fact, using the 2.4.1 Framework build for OS-X 10.3, and installing it on both 10.3 and 10.4 might well do what you want. I know the 10.3 stuff will all run on 10.4, it's just a question of what C libs get linked if you build on 10.4, using the 10.3 Python. I suspect that if you use distutils, it might all work, but if you build everything on 10.3, you're all set. > with instructions on how to create > the package. This is very easy for anything that builds with distutils. Py2App comes with bdist_mpkg, which will build a *.mpkg from setup.py. The only tricky part is external libs. For instance, for matplotlib, I need to make sure it statically linked libpng and libfreetype, so that the package would run on a stock OS-X. It would be great if you contributed some upgraded packages to pythonmac. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
