Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Need M1 Mac to Test

2022-01-12 Thread Brian Herman
I lived through that era. My dad would let me play with a Mac SE. I would play with LC II at school and Apple II. I have an Apple IIe. On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 6:37 PM wrote: > No worries, you can do Python development during the Intel->Arm > transition. And then in umpteen years during the Arm->

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Need M1 Mac to Test

2022-01-12 Thread jack . jansen
No worries, you can do Python development during the Intel->Arm transition. And then in umpteen years during the Arm->RiscV transition, and after that: who knows…. (And you probably weren’t born for the 68000->PowerPC transition) :-) -- Jack Jansen, , http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Need M1 Mac to Test

2022-01-12 Thread Brian Herman
I wish i was doing python development during the PowerPC->Intel transition. I was in high school and into macs but not python at the time. On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 4:48 PM wrote: > > On 12 Jan 2022, at 22:54, Ned Deily wrote: > > In theory it is possible to select which architecture a multi-ar

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Need M1 Mac to Test

2022-01-12 Thread jack . jansen
> On 12 Jan 2022, at 22:54, Ned Deily wrote: > In theory it is possible to select which architecture a multi-arch > executable is to run under when there is more than one option by using the > "arch" command, like here to force running in Intel emulation mode under > Rosetta2 on an M1 Mac: >

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Need M1 Mac to Test

2022-01-12 Thread Ned Deily
On Jan 12, 2022, at 15:53, jack.jan...@cwi.nl wrote: > Python runs just fine natively on M1 Macs. The python.org installer will > install a Universal2 binary (a single binary containing both the i386 and arm > architectures). > > If you install through brew you get the architecture your brew has

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Need M1 Mac to Test

2022-01-12 Thread jack . jansen
Python runs just fine natively on M1 Macs. The python.org installer will install a Universal2 binary (a single binary containing both the i386 and arm architectures). If you install through brew you get the architecture your brew has been configured for. But there _is_ a p

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Need M1 Mac to Test

2022-01-12 Thread Ned Deily
On Jan 12, 2022, at 15:35, Brian Herman wrote: > Do you guys need an M1 mac to test out the latest python? > I have an extra macbook air m1 I would be willing to give people access to it > so they can test the latest python and compile things or I could do it > manually. > My brother said you gu

[Pythonmac-SIG] Need M1 Mac to Test

2022-01-12 Thread Brian Herman
Do you guys need an M1 mac to test out the latest python? I have an extra macbook air m1 I would be willing to give people access to it so they can test the latest python and compile things or I could do it manually. My brother said you guys didn't have one yet.