Hi, On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Russell E. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > In article > <cabl7cqjacxp2grtt8hvmayajrm0xmtn1qt71wkdnbgq7dlu...@mail.gmail.com>, > Ralf Gommers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Building binaries for releases is currently quite complex and >> time-consuming. For OS X we need two different machines, because we still >> provide binaries for OS X 10.5 and PPC machines. I propose to not do this >> anymore. It doesn't mean we completely drop support for 10.5 and PPC, just >> that we don't produce binaries. PPC was phased out in 2006 and OS X 10.6 >> came out in 2009, so there can't be a lot of demand for it (and the >> download stats at >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.7.1/confirm this). >> >> Furthermore I propose to not provide 2.6 binaries anymore. Downloads of 2.6 >> OS X binaries were <5% of the 2.7 ones. We did the same with 2.4 for a long >> time - support it but no binaries. >> >> So what we'd have left at the moment is only the 64-bit/32-bit universal >> binary for 10.6 and up. What we finally need to add is 3.x OS X binaries. >> We can make an attempt to build these on 10.8 - since we have access to a >> hosted 10.8 Mac Mini it would allow all devs to easily do a release >> (leaving aside the Windows issue). If anyone has tried the 10.6 SDK on 10.8 >> and knows if it actually works, that would be helpful. >> >> Any concerns, objections? > > I am in strong agreement. > > I'll be interested to learn how you make binary installers for python > 3.x because the standard version of bdist_mpkg will not do it. I have > heard of two other projects (forks or variants of bdist_mpkg) that will, > but I have no idea of either is supported.
I think I'm the owner of one of the forks; I supporting it, but I should certainly make a release soon too. > I have been able to building packages on 10.8 using > MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 that will run on 10.6, so it will probably > work. However I have run into several odd problems over the years > building a binary installer on a newer system only to find it won't work > on older systems for various reasons. Thus my personal recommendation is > that you build on 10.6 if you want an installer that reliably works for > 10.6 and later. I keep an older computer around for this reason. In fact > that is one good reason to drop support for ancient operating systems > and PPC. I'm sitting next to a 10.6 machine you are welcome to use; just let me know, I'll give you login access. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
