[Pythonmac-SIG] Fat Python?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:33 AM, Kent Quirk wrote:

> We're trying to get our application ready for the forthcoming Intel  
> Macs, and we'll need to have a fat binaries version of Python and  
> support for it in py2app.
>
> We have successfully built an intel version of the Python.org  
> version of Python 2.4 using gnu readline, but we haven't even tried  
> to make fat binaries yet, nor do we have the full set of source  
> changes found in Mac Python. Doing so would require quite a bit  
> more autoconf-foo than we have at hand.
>
> We've also been looking at macholib to see about making it (and by  
> extension, py2app) aware of little-endian binaries. But that's  
> going slowly.
>
> Has anyone else tackled this yet? Are the Mac Python sources  
> available?
>
> Bob, have you done anything with this since the spring? Can you  
> perhaps enlighten us with what you know regarding the task queue to  
> pull this off?

I have no plans or interest in doing the work to support little  
endian until I have a little endian machine.  That's not going to  
happen unless someone gives me one, or Apple comes out with a little  
endian powerbook.

-bob

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