Jeremy Reichman wrote: > I just found out about appscript, and one of my early questions is > "can I > install it as a universal binary?" If I can't do that, my next > question is > "can I install it for both architectures simultaneously, on either > PowerPC > or Intel?" (I happen to do sys admin and would like to install it > once for > both architectures if possible.)
This is more of a general distutils/setuptools/Mac Python question, and would be better covered by their FAQs if they aren't already. If anyone has links to those FAQs, let me know and I'll add them to the 'Getting more help' section of the appscript FAQ. To try to answer your question: it depends on what Python build you're installing it on and if it's a UB itself or not. OS X's default Python frameworks are a bit quirky in their build settings, e.g. Tiger's Python 2.3.5 is, IIRC, platform-specific; Leopard's Python 2.5 is a four-way UB, but its out-of-the-box configuration is a bit duff which causes some hassles for building UB extensions (I think they're two- way UB, but labelled by architecture). Third-party Python distributions may have different default build rules; if you're using one of those, you need to check yourself. FWIW, I currently provide 32-bit UBs of appscript 0.18.1 for Python 2.5.x as pre-built eggs, which you can install via setuptools' easy_install. The 'i386' and 'ppc' eggs are UBs built on Leopard Python, hence the wonky naming. The 'fat' egg is built with the official Mac Python distribution off python.org, but Leopard Python ignores it, which is why I have to distribute three eggs to do the same job instead of one <sigh>. There's also a source .tar.gz distribution which you can d/l and build yourself, or setuptools will use it automatically if it can't find a suitable egg for your Python distribution. Anyway, other folks here know more about this stuff than I do, so hopefully they can chip in with more information if you want to provide more details about your setup. HTH has -- Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC: http://appscript.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
