On Mar 19, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 18 Mar, 2011, at 21:03, Mark Livingstone wrote: >> >> I think Apple has just decided to draw a line in the sand with XCode >> 4. They are still supporting XCode3 as can be seen by the 3.2.6 >> release after the release of 4.0.0. I am writing this msg on an Intel >> Mac Pro which I bought within days of their release so I don't doubt >> there are G5s still doing Sterling service, but we all know that Apple >> is not afraid to say "Time to move on". It is not Apple who is begging >> their customers to stop using IE6!! > > Sure, but this move means that anyone using Xcode4 will have a hard time to > build extensions for the 32-bit installers on OSX, those are hardcoded to > build extensions for PPC and i386 and use the 10.4u SDK.
Yeah - this is especially ironic since the Apple-shipped python on Snow Leopard is also dependent on building PPC-compatible extensions... > > I'll write something to include on the Macintosh page on www.python.org and > will work on fixes for the next releases of Python, but AFAIK those are still > months off (and I don't think this issue is something to rush those releases > for). I'll see if I can write a small project that can be easy-installed > and tweaks the distutils configuration when it is installed (using > pth-trickery). > > Ronald > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
