In article <20110721001520.gb12...@panix.com>,
 Aahz <a...@pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011, Russell E. Owen wrote:
> >
> > Will py2app to work to build Mac application bundles under Lion (MacOS X 
> > 10.7)?
> > 
> > I'm using python.org 32-bit python and ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.4.19 and 
> > trying to build self-contained Python/Tk apps that run on at least MacOS 
> > X 10.5 and later.
> > 
> > I assume there's no problems, but it would be very helpful to know what 
> > to watch out for if there are.
> 
> Works for us, but Lion always runs installs as root so you need to
> update your flights to use "su -u $USER" for anything you previously did
> as the default user.

Ronald Oussouran points out in the Lion thread that:

> Both (the more compatible 32-bit python.org Python binary installer and the 
> 64-bit/32-bit version)
> should work, but only the 64-bit/32-bit installer is truly useful:  the 
> xcode version for Lion is from the 4.x series and that no longer supports 
> building PPC extensions, hence the Python installed by the 32-bit installer 
> cannot build new extensions.

That's a very serious limitation indeed.

-- Russell

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