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

[Daniel Holth]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
<chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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?

Of course.