Charlie Moad wrote:
I have had horrible luck with bdist_mpkg for the last several
months.
Do you remember what the problems were? It certainly used to work,
though it's been a good while since I've tried.
I did poke at the setuptools code and it looks like we just
won't be able to make it happy with a universal binary. The preferred
extensions have ppc or i386 in them depending on your arch.
hmm -- it seems that folks are finding that re-naming them does the
trick, so we could just re-name -- maybe even have two identical fields
that happen to have different names -- though maybe this wouldn't fool
easy_install and pyPi
I think the
best way to move forward is to just post binaries for each architecture
and not have a universal build.
Please, Please, Please, NO!
I really think it is very, very important to have universal binaries. We
really want as few possibilities for what-to-install as possible.
Also, py2app is pretty much out of the question if you're processor
dependent.
I really appreciate that you've been building Universal -- I'll see what
I can do to help facilitate that continuing.
For what it's worth, Apple appears to be dropping PPC support for 10.6,
so someday, this will be a non-issue (quite a ways out, though...)
Have you tried communicating with either the setuptools folks and.or the
pyhtonmac folks that work on py2app (maybe on only Ronald now -- what
ever happened to Bob I.?) about how to fix these issues.
I statically compile in universal builds of libpng and freetype so
end-users don't have to worry about it. I just build these by hand
What a pain -- I do wish we could get more of these support libraries
setup so you can just call Configure with a flag -- oh well.
the process is documented here:
http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/MatplotlibOSXBuildNotes
Thanks, that does look easier than other ways I've seen it done. I'm
going to give it a try.
-Chris
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