On Apr 26, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Daniel Lord wrote: > Alex, > Just so you and anyone who cares that our platform get fair > treatment know. Turns out the Mac bigot was behaving badly again. > GMP 4.2 doesn't compile on PPC macs either and he was blaming > Apple's compilers. Turns out we figured out a fix involving PIC--it > seems Linux PPCs have the same problem. So it was gcc problem not > an Apple one. I called him on and asked that he fix the site to > avoid further embarassment ( i did that privately) but I publicly > asked him to include the patches for Apple i386 and PPC in the > source and wondered why they hadn't been adopted. That struck a > nerve so he set my mail address to be moderated effectively > quarantining me to stifle me. I figured this would happen and I > didn't care--I got in a few licks and he's made a fool of himself. > He took down the diatribe against Apple at least. In my life > experience, I have found that appeasing such ignorant fools drunk > with power only encourages them. It was a good fight, I > accomplished what I wanted, and I feel no loss with the gmp list--I > really only want it to work.
Wow, thanks for the update -- that [[expletive deleted]] maintainer is most definitely doing GMP no favors (nor, any favors to the cause of open source, either). So, I guess, eventually we'll have to fork GMP, or something:-(. Ah well -- so the next minor 4.2.* is expected to build well -with- ppc on Mac both intel and PPC...? Thanks for your efforts, in any case! Alex _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
