Renaming OSX wheels on pypi to make them more general

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Chris Barker <chris.barker@...236...> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Matthew Brett > <matthew.brett@...149...> > wrote:

> > what is this going to do on OS-X 10.7 and 10.8 systems running homebrew
> or
> > macports pythons? It seems this list could get pretty long!
>
Yes, it could, but this list:
>
> so we would have to add all those if we wanted to support them...

> https://www.adium.im/sparkle/?year=2014&week=22&graph=bar#osVersion
>
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very interesting stats! I wonder how representative those are? Makes we
think we can drop 32 bit support, too. Maybe the newest 2.7 py.org binaries
could be 64 bit only. It would simplify things a bit.

I hope you will not drop 32-bit support yet.. I still use it to
distribute some Tkinter apps. All recent versions of ActiveState Tcl/Tk
8.5 have a nasty crashing bug that I have not found a workaround for,
and old enough versions that don't have the bug need to run in 32-bit
mode on Mavericks.

-- Russell

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Hi,

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On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Russell E. Owen <rowen@...748...> wrote:

In article
<CALGmxEL6geHVqGibWbUir3tovKs4KeGuW-qeTv5KMcsR40r-bQ@...150...>,
Chris Barker <chris.barker@...236...> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Matthew Brett >> <matthew.brett@...149...> >> wrote:

> > what is this going to do on OS-X 10.7 and 10.8 systems running homebrew
> or
> > macports pythons? It seems this list could get pretty long!
>
Yes, it could, but this list:
>
> so we would have to add all those if we wanted to support them...

> https://www.adium.im/sparkle/?year=2014&week=22&graph=bar#osVersion
>
>
very interesting stats! I wonder how representative those are? Makes we
think we can drop 32 bit support, too. Maybe the newest 2.7 py.org binaries
could be 64 bit only. It would simplify things a bit.

I hope you will not drop 32-bit support yet.. I still use it to
distribute some Tkinter apps. All recent versions of ActiveState Tcl/Tk
8.5 have a nasty crashing bug that I have not found a workaround for,
and old enough versions that don't have the bug need to run in 32-bit
mode on Mavericks.

Do you need 32 bit support for the wheels or just for the MacPython
binaries? It's getting harder to build 32 / 64 bit universal
binaries these days...

Cheers,

Matthew

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Hi Russell,

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Makes we

think we can drop 32 bit support, too. Maybe the newest 2.7 py.org binaries

could be 64 bit only. It would simplify things a bit.

I hope you will not drop 32-bit support yet… I still use it to

distribute some Tkinter apps. All recent versions of ActiveState Tcl/Tk

8.5 have a nasty crashing bug that I have not found a workaround for,

and old enough versions that don’t have the bug need to run in 32-bit

mode on Mavericks.

Darn. I guess it’s not uncommon that even folks with a 64 bit machine may need a lib or something that is 32 bit only – so maybe good to keep it. But it really is a pain – and this example is supposed to be part of Python’s stdlib!

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@…149…> wrote:

Do you need 32 bit support for the wheels or just for the MacPython
binaries? It’s getting harder to build 32 / 64 bit universal
binaries these days…

Exactly – will an Intel Universal Python pick up a 64 bit-only wheel?

That would be OK for most folks, I guess, though I’d really prefer it if things were more clear – you have a 32/64 bit python, you install wheels and it works fine for you, so distribute via py2app, then it crashed when run in 32 bit mode…

Oh well.

-Chris

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