[Pythonmac-SIG] Lion

[Aahz]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011, Russell E. Owen wrote:
> In article <B26BA0B9-804D-402E-8AF5-C9D9FA94AE93 at mac.com>,
>  Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>> On 21 Jul, 2011, at 2:27, Ned Deily wrote:
>> 
>> Both should work, but only the 64-bit/32-bit installer is truly useful:  the 
>> xcode version for Lion is from the 4.x series and that no longer supports 
>> building PPC extensions, hence the Python installed by the 32-bit installer 
>> cannot build new extensions.
> 
> Ouch. I've been using the 32-bit (10.3) versions so I can build apps 
> that run on MacOS X 10.5 and later (10.4 as well, but I have no 
> requirement for that).
> 
> It sounds like the only ways to do that now are:
> - Compile Python from source, plus all packages I use (numpy, 
> matplotlib, PIL...)
> - Use the 32-bit version of Python and never, ever build an extension on 
> 10.7.
> - Try to use an older XCode on 10.7. I doubt that would work properly, 
> if at all.
> - Stay with 10.6 or at least keep it around for building apps to 
> distribute.

The latter is what we're doing.
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