Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Status of PyObjC 2 on systems earlier than Leopard

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 29 Jan, 2008, at 22:18, Luc Heinrich wrote:

> Hey Ronald,
>
> Do you have a rough estimate of when PyObjC 2 might become usable on
> OS X 10.4 ? I'm currently stuck on OS X 10.4.10 and I can't even
> upgrade to 10.4.11 because PyObjC 1.4 is incompatible with Safari 3.
> I'm soon going to upgrade my main dev machine to a new MacPro which
> will obviously run Leopard, so eventhough I will be able to tweak my
> build scripts to use the system PyObjC 2, I will still have to use a
> separate build machine/partition running OS X 10.4 and PyObjC 1.4.
> Using two different version of PyObjC for dev and for release builds
> makes me slightly uncomfortable :)
>
> So any idea ?

The version of pyobjc-core that's in the repository builds on Tiger  
and passes most tests there (IIRC most if not all failures are  
expected failures). I have to do three things to get a release that's  
usable on 10.4:

1) Generate "bridgesupport" metadata that can be shipped with PyObjC  
(as that metadata won't be present on 10.4)

2) Make sure manual bindings for functions that we introduced in  
Leopard use weak linking and/or conditional compilation

3) Test, test, test.

I have no idea when I'll actually do those. I live in Leopard these  
days and don't need Tiger support myself, but would like to support  
Tiger anyway.

Ronald
>
>
> Please ? :)
>
>
> PS: by the way, is PyObjC compatible with Python 2.4 ?

PyObjC should work just fine with Python 2.4
>
>
> -- 
> Luc Heinrich
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