Ronald Oussoren wrote: > On 5 Apr, 2008, at 1:40, Christopher Barker wrote: >> Can we build a single binary installer for PIL that will work with BOTH >> Apple's Python2.5 that comes with OS-X 10.5 and MacPython2.5, Universal >> Framework Build for OS-X 10.3.9 and above. > > Not really, you'll have to provide two installers.
Darn. > BTW. What I'd like to see is a collection of recipes for building > packages like this. That is, a Makefile/shell-script/python-script/... that > will build > all dependencies, the package itself and an installer. Well, there is this: http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/UniversalLibrariesAndExtensions But you're right, it would be nice to get that down to a single script. I'll get a start on that. Do you think it should download the tarballs too (curl) ? > That's the most annoying issue with the pythonmac.org repository: some > packages are non-trivial to rebuild (such as PyOpenGL 2.x) and there is no > indication whatsover of how they were build. There was some effort to put it all in a Wiki, but not really maintained. Also, it was suggested that folks put a README in with it. I did that for Matplotlib a while back, but the problem is that the packages are moving targets. Another issue is that lots of Python packages rely on the same external libs -- libpng comes to mind. Another way to do do it would be to supply a standard build of those libs,a nd link all the packages against them. These are good options for that: http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/software:frameworks His UnixImageIO Framework is pretty handy > That's not very interesting for users, until it is time to build a > binary for the next > version and someone has to reinvent the proper build proces. Exactly. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (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
