[Pythonmac-SIG] gmpy universal build (static)?

[Russell E Owen]

In article <BEB6B93F-6A3F-419B-9EC6-0D458651D1F4 at mac.com>,
 Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:

> What I'd like to see is a collection of binary packages that are  
> created from a set of recipies (somewhat like what DarwinPorts does,  
> but without sucking in a second installation of unix). That way it  
> should be possible to (mostly) automaticly rebuild the binary  
> packages when new versions of software are released, and when a new  
> version of Python is released.

I agree. I'd be nice to have a recipe for any packages on pythonmac.org 
that aren't trivial to build.

(Ditto for eggs, I suppose; I've not yet tried to learn how to make eggs 
-- binary or otherwise. Any good basic tutorials around?)

> In an ideal world we'd have the same set of software available for  
> python 2.4, python 2.5 and Apple's python installation. The only way  
> to get there is by using a toolset that does most of the work,  
> manually building software and checking that everything still works  
> is too much work.

That sounds wonderful -- publish a script instead of a description of 
what to do. But even a recipe is much better than nothing. And to that 
effect...I am willing to serve recipes for building Mac versions of 
python-related software (I already serve a few). But we're talking basic 
here, no wiki, no database, each recipe is a page, with one table of 
contents page, you send me an update when you want to fix or improve 
something.

-- Russell