On 9 Jun, 2008, at 13:19, Charlie Moad wrote:
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On 9 Jun, 2008, at 12:07, Charlie Moad wrote: I think thebest way to move forward is to just post binaries for each architecture and not have a universal build.Please, Please, Please, NO!This seems to be the only solution to make "easy_install matplotlib" actually work.No, the better solution is to investigate why a universal binary wouldn't work and try to fix that. Platform-specific eggs make it very hard to distribute apps in a user-friendly way.Ok, so let's probe the distutils list and ask them to add support for fat binaries. You would think they could inspect the CFLAGS or library output with the "file" command to see if the build is outputting fat binaries.
Why not investigate yourself? Distutils already supports fat binaries when building using a python.org build. The python build that Apple ships did have some issues and those should be easy to fix, and to be honest I can't recall if they are already fixed.
Automaticly detecting which architectures are present in a binary would be harder, distutils determines the platform architecture before building the extensions and not afterwards.
Ronald
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