[Pythonmac-SIG] Build python app using wxpython on intel-leopard and deploy on powerpc-tiger?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Oct 6 22:39:08 CEST 2009


On Tue, Oct 06, 2009, Ned Deily wrote:
>
> One last thought!  If you have access to a tiger machine, it may very 
> well be easier and safer if you build the app on 10.4.  It should then 
> run on both 10.4 and 10.5.  OS X 10.n -> 10.n+1 compatibility is usually 
> a given but 10.n -> 10.n-1 is not.  The latest pythons (2.6.x) go to 
> some trouble to ensure downward compatibility but that may not be true 
> of other dependencies.  Just follow the same outline about installing 
> the python.org python and dependencies.

What is your recommendation for supporting 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6?  Does
including PPC make any difference?
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