[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jan 3, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>> I think that for "true" end users Idle is the only serious  
>> omission. The first one is really for developers only, and the  
>> second one doesn't really become important until such fat eggs  
>> become widely available (which they are not right now, IIRC).
>
> I need to check on an unpatched system, but I'm pretty sure that  
> setuptools will refuse to install fat eggs at the moment, and that  
> is something that will bite causal developers (e.g. you install  
> something like turbogears and will complain about missing eggs).
>>


It seems to be working for me.  Some source I compiled builds a python  
wrapper (swig-based), which also depends on numpy.  I used ARCHFLAGS  
to build quad-arch:

export ARCHFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch i386 -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64"

With "make install" it uses setup.py's setup(), which works with no  
errors.  The zipped egg the build process generates also installs with  
easy_install with no errors.  The egg is named with only the build  
system's arch, i386.  I don't see anything in the egg-info or easy- 
install.pth that identifies the architectures, other than the egg name.

I haven't done any patching to the system's python.

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