[Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 11-feb-2006, at 22:03, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Feb 11, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>>
>> On 10-feb-2006, at 2:56, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>
>>> The extension thing we can hack around by installing two copies of
>>> the Makefile and having distutils pick a PPC-only Makefile if it
>>> detects 10.3.
>>
>> I was thinking more along the line of hacking distutils to detect  
>> that
>> it is running on 10.3 and then removing 10.4+ specific flags (all - 
>> arch
>> flags and the -isysroot thingy) from CFLAGS.
>
> That would work too, but it's probably easier to have a separate  
> Makefile present because it's easier to implement.

Not for me, my test machine for 10.3 doesn't have a compiler :-)

>
> Probably also a bit easier to make work with dumb extensions that  
> aren't built with distutils (like subversion's Python bindings)..  
> since they'd just have to add a little conditional to the Makefile- 
> finding code, rather than re-implementing the flags mangling.

To badly parafrase you: extensions that don't use distutils to build  
suck and are broken. If we must support those we could add a pkg- 
config style script.

Ronald
>
> -bob
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