[python-committers] new tarballs

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Jeff Senn <senn at maya.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 2, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Jeff Senn <senn at maya.com> wrote:
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>>> Is whoever does the OS-X build on this list?  I have problems building
>>> the
>>> Mac OS-X installer build using the build script in the tarball...
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>>> (Could there be uncommitted changes to
>>> Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py?)
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>> I had to hack the thing up a bit to get it to work. It's ugly, though,
>> so I'll have to clean it up and commit sometime.
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> Hm.  Unfortunate to make a "release" that doesn't include quite the right
> build script. For the record, attached are my changes to the build script to
> get it to work.  (I'm trying to build the OS-X "stackless" variant for
> distribution for 2.6).
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> I'm assuming that the following are correct and intended:
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> 1- the name of the Mac python install folder in /Applications should now be
>   "Python<version>" rather than "MacPython<version>"
> 2- the filename of the released documentation from the ftp site changed from
>   "html-<version>.tar.bz2" to "python-docs-html.tar.bz2"
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> But I notice that your posted dmg does NOT include the
> "Update Shell Profile.command"  Should that be gone now?
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> My /Library/Framework.../Documentation/...html files build slightly
> differently
> than yours...
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> Also I notice that my build has usually slightly smaller exe and .so sizes
> than yours (that could be due to different versions of compiler I suppose)

I compiled some newer libraries also.

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> Can you let me know when/if/where you commit changes to build-installer.py?

I've updated now.

> Thanks,
> -Jas
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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson
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