Re: [matplotlib-devel] Renaming OSX wheels on pypi to make them more general

[Russell E. O. <ro...@uw...>]

In article 
<CAL...@ma...>,
 Chris Barker <chr...@no...> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Matthew Brett 
> <mat...@gm...>
> 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.

-- Russell