[lxml-dev] Binary egg for Mac OS X

Alexander Limi limi at plone.org
Fri Jun 19 07:30:51 CEST 2009


On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:08:38 -0700, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>  
wrote:

>
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Stephan Eletzhofer wrote:
>>>>> Do we want to give the static versions a dedicated name?
>>>>> "lxml-x.y.z-static" or smth like
>>>>> that?  Maybe not everyone wants static eggs (even not on OSX boxen)?
>>>> I would want them to be the default download on MacOS (i.e. no special
>>>> naming), but only after some testing by some MacOS users on  
>>>> differently
>>>> configured systems, i.e. using different MacOS versions, different
>>>> package
>>>> distributions, different Python versions, etc. So maybe you could  
>>>> provide
>>>> them separately first?
>>> Yes sure -- you mean "separately" as in "not on pypi"?
>>
>> Yep, just build some and advertise them on lxml-dev asking for  
>> feedback. If
>> they seem to work for everyone, we can upload them to PyPI.
>
> ... any news from the front?

Martin Aspeli has indicated that they worked for him. I haven't had time  
to test it yet, but will hopefully get around to it this weekend. Don't  
let me hold you up, though — PyPI eggs need testing too, right? :)


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