[issue6245] Add "intel" universal architecture on OSX

Martin v. Löwis report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jun 9 06:32:23 CEST 2009


Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> The details of snow leopard are under NDA, but based on public 
> information :

This is all fine, and really not surprising. My question is:
Why is that causing limited usability? I would expect that
Snow Leopard just ignores the PPC bits in the universal binaries,
and just accesses the x86 bits. The binaries might be larger
than necessary; people bothered by that could easily strip them
using ditto (IIUC).

I'm fine with an option of not building the PPC bits - I'm
just puzzled by the claim that, without the patch, it will
not be "100% usable".

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