[Python-Dev] versioned .so files for Python 3.2 (original) (raw)

schmir at gmail.com schmir at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 13:46:03 CEST 2010

Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> writes:

On 23 Jul, 2010, at 11:54, Barry Warsaw wrote:

What about the architecture (i386, amd64)? With every increase in length I start to get more concerned. We could encode the platform and architecture, but that gets into cryptic territory. OTOH, would you really co-install i386 and amd64 shared libraries on the same machine? (hello NFS ;). I don't need this, but then again I primarily use a platform where the vendor has a proper solution for having binaries for multiple architectures ;-)

Well, Apple doesn't prevent people from building 32/64 bit-only python installations. Doesn't that give you 3 choices i386, amd64, fat?? And you can have framework or non-framework builds.

Doesn't anybody else think this is lost work for very little gain? My /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages directory consumes 200MB on disk. I couldn't care less if my /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages consumed the same amount of disk space...

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