I believe this feature request should be considered, for a few reasons:
- It can't be that hard: I mean, there are already binary bindings for Windows and Linux (the latter, unofficial).
- Compiling requires extra software: Requiring people to install XCode, a multigigabyte download, just to compile less than a megabyte of code is unreasonable.
- Compiling is a pain for end-users: I've developed a chemistry tool for OSX in Python. It should be able to run easily on any platform, but my users aren't developers and can't be expected to compile the libraries my program needs in order to run.
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It's tricky, though. With every OS release, Apple delivers a new default Python version. So I'd need to support 10.7/Python2.7 and 10.6/Python2.6, etc.
I can probably at least release 10.7/Python2.7 with the next release.
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I believe this feature request should be considered, for a few reasons:
- It can't be that hard: I mean, there are already binary bindings for Windows and Linux (the latter, unofficial).
- Compiling requires extra software: Requiring people to install XCode, a multigigabyte download, just to compile less than a megabyte of code is unreasonable.
- Compiling is a pain for end-users: I've developed a chemistry tool for OSX in Python. It should be able to run easily on any platform, but my users aren't developers and can't be expected to compile the libraries my program needs in order to run.
It's tricky, though. With every OS release, Apple delivers a new default Python version. So I'd need to support 10.7/Python2.7 and 10.6/Python2.6, etc.
I can probably at least release 10.7/Python2.7 with the next release.