[Pythonmac-SIG] 64-bit Python?

[William Kyngesburye]

Here's an interesting twist (!! just a rumor so far !!)

OSX 10.6 may drop PPC support.

Dunno, with G5s as recent as 2005, this seems like a bit of a stretch,  
but you never know with Apple.

http://www.powerpage.org/2008/06/rumor_apple_to_drop_powerpc_architecture_support_in_mac_os_x_106.html


But people will still want to compile Python 2.6 for Leopard (and the  
next cat, if 2.6 doesn't make it there), so the quad-arch issue is  
still valid.

On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> I've just commited support for building python as a 4-way universal  
> binary to the python repository (revision 63955).
>
> What does does:
>
> This patch adds a new configure argument on OSX:
>        --with-universal-archs=[32-bit|64-bit|all]
>
> When used with the --enable-universalsdk option this controls which
> CPU architectures are includes in the framework. The default is 32- 
> bit,
> meaning i386 and ppc. The most useful alternative is 'all', which  
> includes
> all 4 CPU architectures supported by MacOS X (i386, ppc, x86_64 and  
> ppc64).

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