[Pythonmac-SIG] findertools.launch reports "no eligible process"

[Kevin Walzer]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> 
> On 14 Jun, 2007, at 22:42, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Nicholas Riley wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:16:08PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
>>>> However, if was nice to have some stuff without any external
>>>> dependencies -- is there a lightweight way to do just Easy Dialogs,
>>>> without all of PyObjC?
>>>
>>> It shouldn't be hard to simply wrap a Cocoa EasyDialogs implementation
>>> in C to construct a traditional Python module, but it make ssense to
>>> wait and see how much of Carbon is no longer going to be supported in
>>> 64-bit on Leopard (probably the WWDC attendees find out today but it's
>>> NDA'd).  Cocoa doesn't have a generic API that matches that of
>>> EasyDialogs as much as Carbon does.
>>
>> The WWDC attendees (me included) already know but as you say that info
>> is under NDA ;-).
> 
> But luckily the situation is explained on a mailinglist:
> 
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/Carbon-dev/2007/Jun/msg00260.html
> 
> The summary: no 64-bit Carbon GUI libraries. I haven't even tried to 
> compile Python's Carbon wrapper in 64-bit mode, I'd be surprised if they 
> compiled cleanly because Apple has done some serious spring-cleaning in 
> 64-bit mode.
> 
> Ronald
> 

A couple of questions:

1. Will applications that are 32 bit have any problems running under 
Leopard?
2. Would Python have to be specifically compiled as 64-bit to support 
PyObjC, or would 32-bit Python be OK?

--Kevin


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