Here's an interesting twist (!! just a rumor so far !!)
OSX 10.6 may drop PPC support.
Dunno, with G5s as recent as 2005, this seems like a bit of a stretch,
but you never know with Apple.
http://www.powerpage.org/2008/06/rumor_apple_to_drop_powerpc_architecture_support_in_mac_os_x_106.html
But people will still want to compile Python 2.6 for Leopard (and the
next cat, if 2.6 doesn't make it there), so the quad-arch issue is
still valid.
On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
I've just commited support for building python as a 4-way universal
binary to the python repository (revision 63955).
What does does:
This patch adds a new configure argument on OSX:
--with-universal-archs=[32-bit|64-bit|all]
When used with the --enable-universalsdk option this controls which
CPU architectures are includes in the framework. The default is 32-
bit,
meaning i386 and ppc. The most useful alternative is 'all', which
includes
all 4 CPU architectures supported by MacOS X (i386, ppc, x86_64 and
ppc64).
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