[Distutils] [issue19] Will setuptools on Mac Python accept fat eggs?

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Tue Jun 3 10:12:18 CEST 2008


On 3 Jun, 2008, at 1:50, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:

>
> New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com>:
>
> There was a time, last November, when, if I understand it correctly,  
> setuptools
> on the standard Python that comes with Mac OS X wouldn't accept fat  
> eggs for Mac
> OS X 10.4 or higher.
>
> Here is the pythonmac-sig discussion:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/does-pkg_resources-think-that-%22macosx-10.3%22-is-incompatible-with-10.5--to13865060.html#a13865060
>
> Ronald Oussoren has committed the fix for the comparison of Mac OS X  
> version
> numbers from '<' to '>=', so as of Python 2.5.2 that problem is  
> fixed.  However,
> he mentioned other problems which I didn't understand:
>
> """the config/Makefile in
> Apple's Python.framework isn't configured for building universal
> binaries.
>
> And to make matters even worse: I'm pretty sure that setuptools used
> to know that 'fat' builds are compatible with 'i386' and 'ppc'
> architectures (at least on OSX), but that code no longer seems to be
> there.
> """
>
> What is the status of this issue now?

That's an issue in Apple's build of Python and not something we can fix.

Ronald

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