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

[Matthew B. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi,

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

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