[Pythonmac-SIG] Lion

[Aahz]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011, Ned Deily wrote:
>
> Although it's not practical to build packages with C extension modules 
> on 10.7 for the traditional 32-bit-only python.org Pythons (as explained 
> above), it is possible to build such packages with the same Python 
> installed on a 10.6, 10.5, or even 10.4 system, create a Distutils bdist 
> or setuptools/Distribute bdist-egg and then install the binary 
> distribution on the 10.7 system.  I would avoid going down that path if 
> possible, unless it is needed as a temporary transition phase.

Why?  Isn't that the only way to get a multi-platform build?
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