[Pythonmac-SIG] install again?

[Christopher Barker]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> Caveat emptor.  You can not build extensions on 10.3.9 when using a 
> universal build.

Fair enough. No is going to be running 10.3 on an Intel Mac. If you want 
to develop for Intel users, you need 10.4. Period.

However, given that, I think we should perhaps just suggest that 10.3.* 
users stick with a PPC only build. That would give us two builds to 
support with pre-built binaries, but a bunch are already done. I'm sorry 
to say that I just switched to 10.4, so I wont' be building an packages 
for 10.3.

> That said, you'd be able to use it, and install all the eggs/mpkgs you 
> want, but you would not be able to use it with a compiler.

The other option is to say: "If you don't intend to build your own 
packages, use the universal build", but I think that's risky, and a 
newbie might not think s/he is going to build anything,  but will 
discover later that they need to.

> That goes both ways, users of the universal build can't use "legacy" 
> eggs (marked with ppc or i386 architecture) from the current builds.

That's OK. I think we can rally the community to build a good collection 
of stuff one the universal build comes out. Maybe none of them will be 
tested on Intel, but so be it!

Bob, what do you think the timescale is for a universal build? If it's 
soon, then we should work on re-0writing the web site as though it's 
ready to go.

-Chris

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