[Pythonmac-SIG] easy_install question

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Mon Apr 23 15:22:37 CEST 2007


Ulysses Known wrote:

> 
> Well, since easy_install pulled down and built the package on this
> machine (a very slick and easy install indeed!) I see no need to have
> PPC binaries on it, since I would use that same install process on a
> PPC box.
> 

Is space at a premium on your machine? If not, what's the harm in having 
the PPC bits there?

In many situations, building universal binaries is difficult. By 
contract, Universal MacPython has made this process so seamless and 
transparent that it's hard to *not* build extensions as universal 
binaries. I wish all my development tools made my work this easy!

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Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
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