[Pythonmac-SIG] universal binary installer, take 1

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Wednesday, March 01, 2006, at 00:10AM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

>Why don't we call this RC1?  I'll update the Web page next week, let's say.

Because I don't want to attract newbies at the moment. Let's get this one
right before giving a lot of publicity to it.

Apart from the db4 issue I'm pretty sure that this version will work correctly
on OSX 10.4.  Support for 10.3 needs more testing, and some work if we want
to support building extensions on 10.3 as well (which we should).

Ronald

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>> I've placed a DMG with an installer for a universal build of python  
>> 2.4.2. This is an initial release of this installer, there are  
>> probably issues with it.
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>> This installer features:
>> - a universal binary of Python.framework
>> - readline 5.1
>> - sleepycat db 4.4
>> - IDLE with Mac keybindings
>> - Python Documentation, both in IDLE and pydoc
>> - pythonw and python are equivalent
>> - the installer will update your shell profile if needed
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>> Known issues:
>> - "regrtest -uall" crashes somewhere in test_db3 (bus error)
>> - I haven't tested this version on Intel or OSX 10.3 yet.
>> - This version cannot build extensions on OSX 10.3, or any other  
>> system without Xcode 2.2.1 and the 10.4u SDK.
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>> The installer is here: http://homepage.mac.com/ronaldoussoren/.Public/ 
>> Universal%20MacPython%202.4.2.dmg
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>> Ronald
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