[Python-Dev] python 2.4 and universal binaries

[Guido van Rossum]

Sounds like an all-round good plan to me.

On 5/11/06, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to backport the patches I've done to the trunk regarding
> universal binary support for OSX and endian issues in Mac specific
> modules.
>
> The last set seems easy enough, all of those are clearly bugfixes.
> I'm not sure if the universal binary patches are acceptable for
> backport (and specifically the change to pyconfig.h.in)
>
> The rationale for this is simple: Apple seems to pick up a recent
> copy of python for every new major release of OSX (Python 2.2.x for
> Jaguar, Python 2.3.0 for Panther, Python 2.3.5 for Tiger) and is
> therefore likely to use Python 2.4.x for the next release of the OS.
> The official python 2.4 tree currently doesn't support building
> univeral binaries. Given that Apple ships a broken universal build of
> python 2.3 with the new intel macs I'm worrying that they won't fix
> this for their next OS release, which would increase the support load
> on the pythonmac-sig list. By adding support for universal binaries
> to python 2.4 we'd reduce the change for a broken python in the next
> OSX release.
>
> Ronald
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