Darn! this slipped off the list -- I hate it when lists aren't set with the reply-to address as the list... On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:

ppc is not completely dead?

I have one under my desk, though truth be told, I haven't turned it on in a good while... Which is a good point, of course, we really only have one type of "universal" build to support, and even that one may be obsolete before too long -- not sure how many 32bit only macs are still around.

That would make sense. Can you come up with code to detect that a newly compiled extension is universal, and that a Python is?

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