Re: PPC vs. x86

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Graham Percival schreef:
> Would it be possible to include a small check in the OSX versions which 
> would display an error message if people tried to run the wrong kind of 
> binary?  We've had two people trying to run the Intel version on a PPC 
> chip, and the current error message is not at all helpful.
>
> In bash script, I'd do this:
> uname -a | grep -c PPC
>
> I'm not certain how to fit that into python, though.

actually, I'd prefer to ship unified binaries, but they are rather 
heavyweight, which is why I'm still waiting for some people to OK an 
alternate download structure.

Making unified binaries is trivial with lipo, or so I heard.


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