[Pythonmac-SIG] Someone had PIL trouble on i386 10.4.6 Python 2.4 IIRC--I succeeded this evening

[Daniel Lord]

Chris,

I will do that but as it stands, one has to build this on the system  
it is going to run on, i.e. i386.
I assume, but haven't gotten around to trying to build this on my PPC  
system since there is a valid build for that already.
First, I am going to create a package for this for i386-based Macs  
and see if I can write a script to do the whole thing 'auto- 
magically'. Then I'll write the instructions up.

Which leads me to a philosophical question for the community: which  
makes since for things like this as a standard practice for  
distribution (ranging from hardest to easiest) 1) to create a package  
with copies of the libraries used as Universal 'FAT' binaries (zlib,  
freetype2, jpeg-6b) not to mention PIL as well that will install  
correctly for PPC or i386 systems but include useless binary versions  
and take up space, 2)  have two separate 'chunks' and have the  
installer select one based on the installation platform, or 3) just  
provide two separate packages--one for i386 and one for PPC?

Daniel

On Apr 18, 2006, at 13:22, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> It would be great if you could post this summary to:
>
> http://pythonmac.org/wiki/UniversalPackages
>
> thanks, -Chris
>
>
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