[Pythonmac-SIG] Py2app error

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<CALGmxELzopN9OMAtpYM3eQ4LEBM1j6oBNZPAd=tYtaq2Z5R77Q at mail.gmail.com>,
 Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
[...]
> Anyway, on the pyton,org site, there are:
> 
> Python 3.2.3 Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit x86-64/i386 Installer (for Mac OS
> X 10.6 and 10.7)
> 
> and
> 
> Python 3.2.3 Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (for Mac OS X 10.3 through 
> 10.6)
> 
> These are what they seem to be -- though I think you got tripped up by
> "for Mac OS X 10.3 through 10.6"  -- actually, that should be "10.3 +
> " -- 10.7 didn't exist when that was built.

Actually, "10.3 through 10.6" is intentional.  If you need to build 
extension modules, the current 3.2.3 and 2.7.3 32-bit python.org Pythons 
do not work well with Xcode 4, the default for OS X 10.7 and 10.8 and 
optional for 10.6.  The upcoming Python 3.3 release has much better 
support for Xcode 4 so that it is practical to use the 32-bit-only 
Python to build extension modules on newer releases.  Some of that 
support will be backported for upcoming 2.7.x and 3.2.x releases.

BTW, for Python 3.3, the 32-bit-only installer Python supports 10.5+ 
systems (i386 and ppc).   More details on all of this forthcoming.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org