On Feb 6, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Bob Ippolito wrote: >> Caveat emptor. You can not build extensions on 10.3.9 when using a >> universal build. > > Fair enough. No is going to be running 10.3 on an Intel Mac. If you > want > to develop for Intel users, you need 10.4. Period. > > However, given that, I think we should perhaps just suggest that > 10.3.* > users stick with a PPC only build. That would give us two builds to > support with pre-built binaries, but a bunch are already done. I'm > sorry > to say that I just switched to 10.4, so I wont' be building an > packages > for 10.3.
Personally, once the universal build is out, that is the *only* one I am building eggs and/or mpkgs for. I suppose it would be worthwhile to create some more patches to setuptools so that PPC-only users can use fat eggs, and universal users can use PPC-only eggs (unless they're on Intel). >> That said, you'd be able to use it, and install all the eggs/mpkgs >> you >> want, but you would not be able to use it with a compiler. > > The other option is to say: "If you don't intend to build your own > packages, use the universal build", but I think that's risky, and a > newbie might not think s/he is going to build anything, but will > discover later that they need to. It would be possible to have a script that flips the Makefile to one that is capable of building PPC-only binaries I guess. >> That goes both ways, users of the universal build can't use "legacy" >> eggs (marked with ppc or i386 architecture) from the current builds. > > That's OK. I think we can rally the community to build a good > collection > of stuff one the universal build comes out. Maybe none of them will be > tested on Intel, but so be it! > > Bob, what do you think the timescale is for a universal build? If it's > soon, then we should work on re-0writing the web site as though it's > ready to go. I'd say soon... The only issues left are to sort out the distribution scripts and some more testing I guess. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
