[Pythonmac-SIG] Future 64-bit installers

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 19 Jul, 2010, at 20:58, Ned Deily wrote:
> 
> 
>> P.S. It should be possible to use the future macosx10.6 installer to install 
>> on 10.5 as well if you install Tk 8.5 yourself, but this won't be prominently 
>> advertised.
> 
> I'm not sure that will work unless you continue to supply other things 
> like openssl that have been upgraded in OS X between 10.5 and 10.6.  
> It's probably a bad idea to set any expectations of that.  The message 
> should be: "if you want Tk 8.5 or 64-bit on 10.5, build it yourself.  Or 
> use MacPorts."  Keep it simple!

You're right, compatibility isn't as easy as I had hoped, although that could
be worked around of course.  But, better not do that to get a clean path
to the future.

Ronald

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