In article <499723CD.80404@v.loewis.de>,
"Martin v. Lowis"
That's fine as long as the distutils issue is resolved. I don't think this should be a prerequisite. As Ronald says: no fix without a bug report; if the system is capable of building the extension correctly, it should do so (so it's a bug and fixes can be backported to 2.6)
And it turns out it should not be a problem for 3.x (and future releases of 2.x). Ronald fixed it several weeks ago here: http://bugs.python.org/issue4064 Python 3.0.1 (r301:69597, Feb 14 2009, 19:03:52) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
from distutils.util import get_platform; print(get_platform()) macosx-10.3-fat
My apologies to Ronald and the cohort for not re-examining this recently. The distutils "problem" isn't anymore. -- Ned Deily, nad@acm.org