[Distutils] Binary Wheels and "universal" builds on OS-X

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

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 <dholth at gmail.com> 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?

can it be platform-dependent? i.e. use a mac-only system call?

-CHB



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