[Python-Dev] 2.3.5 schedule, and something I'd like to get in

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Thu Jan 6 08:29:23 CET 2005


On Jan 5, 2005, at 18:49, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Jack Jansen wrote:
>> The "new" solution is basically to go back to the Unix way of 
>> building  an extension: link it against nothing and sort things out 
>> at runtime.  Not my personal preference, but at least we know that 
>> loading an  extension into one Python won't bring in a fresh copy of 
>> a different  interpreter or anything horrible like that.
>
> This sounds good, except that it only works on OS X 10.3, right?
> What about older versions?

Older versions do not support this feature and have to deal with the 
way things are as-is.  Mac OS X 10.2 is the only supported version that 
suffers this consequence, I don't think anyone has supported Python on 
Mac OS X 10.1 in quite some time.

-bob



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