[issue8002] on OSX the file creation date not available in os.stat

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I'm closing this issue as won't fix. The additional fields are available if you build from source and target 10.5 or later (set 'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5' when you run configure). My current plan is to have two installers for python 2.7 and 3.2: one is

[issue8002] on OSX the file creation date not available in os.stat

Floris van Manen added the comment: On Mar 7, 2010, at 13:08, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > IMO it adding this support is not worth the effort or the additional code > complexity. I do agree. We have to look forwards ... F -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8002] on OSX the file creation date not available in os.stat

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I've done some research: the st_birthtime field is available when the python executable is build using MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 (or later), not for 10.4. Adding support for st_birthtime for MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 is possible but requires signifi

[issue8002] on OSX the file creation date not available in os.stat

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: To be more precise: see issue8001. The OSX 10.5 introduces a new version of stat 'stat64' that exposes additional information to posix-style programs, amongst which is the file creation date. This field is not present in earlier editions of OSX and is also