[Pythonmac-SIG] building universal binaries

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Nicholas Riley wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:41:32AM +0100, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> An alternative to fat might be 'ppc,i386'. That is longer, but is
>> clearer about which architectures are supported (just in case someone
>> decides to donate support for a threeway universal build). Patching
>> setuptools to know that an architecture string that contains a comma
>> is actually a list of architectures shouldn't be too hard.
>
> This sounds like a good idea, and this is not just a legacy issue with
> ppc64 - we'll likely have a 64-bit x86 Mac variant to handle within
> the year.

Even more reason to leave fat as ppc,i386 -- which are all 32 bit  
builds...  Currently, I'm pretty sure ppc64 won't even build at all.

-bob