On 2 Nov, 2007, at 21:38, Martina Oefelein wrote:
Am 02.11.2007 um 08:03 schrieb Ronald Oussoren:As you've noticed the actual framework is 64bit but the commandline tools are not. It should be easy enough to add 64-bit command-line tools as well, but even then you'll have to add extra arguments to build 64-bit extensions (as Boyd mentions).I think this actually makes sense: if the command line tools were 32/64 bit universal, scripts would run with the 64 bit version on 64 bit systems, and wouldn't be able to use any of the libraries that are only 32 bit.The framework, on the other hand, should be 32/64 bit universal so that both 32 and 64 bit applications can embed python.
It's to bad that they don't ship 64-bit command-line utilities as well. Oh well, I guess that's an opportunity for the community: build a small installer that will install 64-bit commandline tools (e.g. a python64 command) as well as the stuff that should be in /Application/ MacPython 2.5.
This is not too hard, but slightly harder than it seems at first glance because one should also hack distutils such that python64 will build 64-bit (or even 4-way universal) binaries while the normal 32- bit binaries should keep functioning exactly as they do now.
Ronald
ciao Martina
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