[Pythonmac-SIG] Marking the pre-built extensions as Intel-capable...

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 28-mrt-2006, at 18:20, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>> Before anyone starts coding, what should happen when you double-click
>> on an egg? I'd say this should bring up a dialog that allows you to
>> install the egg and possibly set some options. Installation will  
>> be done
>> using easy_install.
>
> That sounds good to me.
>
> Does easy-install come with the new Universal build package? Or is a
> good first step to make a package out of that?
>
> I'd like to start populating the world with Universal packages. I  
> see a
> couple possible routes:
>
> 1) wait for Bob to finish Py2App (bdist_mpkg): I think he's indicated
> he's hoping to get that done this weekend.
>
> 2) build *.eggs, and hope someone comes up with a app to associate  
> them
> with later. (and it the meantime they can be installed with the  
> command
> line easy-install
>
> 3) just build them for myself, and wait until this settles out some
> more. Maybe start a Wiki page with a list of packages and an  
> indication
> of what was needed to do to build them.

The universal build does not include setuptools. I'd include some  
bootstrap
code in the tool that is associated with .egg files.

I'm going to build eggs for all software that I use, with mpkgs for  
software
that doesn't support eggs (like twisted).

Ronald

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