[lxml-dev] Binary egg for Mac OS X

[Stefan Behnel]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
> 
>> Finally - what about Linux? Is it rarely/never a problem, or should we 
>> be trying to make binary eggs there too? Is it possible to make binary 
>> eggs that work across the most common distributions?
> 
> -1 to binary eggs on Linux. I don't think problems are common and binary 
> eggs might lead to problems.

Right, now that you mention it: Linux distributions use different unicode
width settings (16/32 bit), which isn't handled by setuptools' egg search
algorithm. So providing binary eggs here is actually harmful because they
will not work on all platforms.

I assume that we do not have this problem on MacOS, as the only vendor that
ships the system Python installation is Apple.

Stefan