On 2-nov-2005, at 23:14, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> On 2-nov-2005, at 22:17, Bob Ippolito wrote: >> >>> Speaking of which, the svn trunk of py2app should be able to >>> analyze and write Mach-O headers of any combination of supported >>> architectures now (32-bit of both endians, 64-bit of both >>> endians, and the universal header that wraps them). It's not >>> really tested yet, though. >> >> Cool. Does that mean that if I'd have a universal binary version >> of Python and addon packages I'd end up with a universal binary >> application bundle after running py2app? > > Almost, the bootstrap is still PPC only for now. That's another > issue, because if I ship a universal bootstrap and someone uses it > with some subset of PPC-only modules, then the application will not > work on a x86 machine since it will run the bootstrap native. > > There may be some kind of Info.plist flag that can toggle which is > the preferred arch, that would be ideal, otherwise I will either > have to make py2app smart enough to do something like lipo -thin > and split off everything but the preferred arch. > > Needless to say, universal binary support is going to be a pain!
And that's just py2app :-). Actually building a universal binary installer for Python and extension modules will also be a lot of "fun" :-(. Ronald > > -bob > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
