<html><body><div><br><br>On Sep 18, 2013, at 03:03 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch">Am 15.09.13 00:56, schrieb Ryan:<br><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">+1. A 10.6-only build makes sense.</blockquote><br> I'd like to support Russell's point: this could put a burden on everyone<br> releasing extension modules to also provide two binary releases, which<br> e.g. would then mess up downloads from PyPI. So -1.<br> <br> +0 on dropping 10.6 support from the binary installers as proposed<br> by Greg.</div></div></blockquote><span> </span></div><div><br></div><div>Dropping support for 10.6 isn't really necessary, just build (carefully) on a later release of OSX (preferably the last one to pick up the most recent developer tools). </div><div><br></div><div>I'll try to provide a more detailed response tonight, but the basic idea is to use OSX 10.8, the current Xcode release and the OSX 10.8 SDK to do the build. This is a supported configuration for building binaries that target older OSX releases, but some care is needed with the configure script for 3th-party libraries: those might pick up features that aren't available in 10.6. </div><div><br></div><div>Ronald</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"><br> <br> Regards,<br> Martin<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Python-Dev mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Python-Dev@python.org" data-mce-href="mailto:Python-Dev@python.org">Python-Dev@python.org</a><br> <a href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev" data-mce-href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev">https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev</a><br> Unsubscribe: <a href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com" data-mce-href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com">https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>