[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.6 eggs don't quite build as universal

Tue Nov 25 20:06:07 CET 2008

Hi all,
In the process of putting py-appscript 0.19.0 eggs onto PyPI and 
noticed that the installer-based Python 2.6 distribution off 
python.org, like the Python 2.5 that ships with Leopard, seems to 
build eggs as universal but marks their filenames as i386/ppc. 
Questions:
- Anyone know why it's doing this? (The Python 2.5 distro from 
python.org correctly labeled eggs as fat.)
- I've uploaded an 'i386' egg for 2.6, but am still futzing around 
trying to do a 'ppc' one on the assumption that python.org's Python 
2.6 on a PPC box will be looking for 'ppc' in the egg's filename 
rather than 'fat'. Anyone with Python 2.6 + easy_install on a G4/G5 
want to try 'easy_install appscript' and see what it does? (BTW, if 
you email me the resulting .egg off-list I'll bung it onto PyPI.)
- Anyone know if I can just change 'i386' in the egg's filename to 
'ppc', or does it really have to be built under a PPC process? (I can 
probably build a ppc-only python2.6 interpreter for running on my 
Intel box, but it won't be tonight.)
Thanks,
has
p.s. Happy py-appscript beta release day. I'll put out a proper 
announcement sometime in the next few days, and I'll also get separate 
file releases of py-aemreceive and py-osaterminology out shortly as 
they're no longer included in the py-appscript distribution.
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