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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I definitely see that there can be problems there.  I hope we can get most
users without a lot more work.

It would not be a huge amount of work for me to make a different build for
each OS X version every night.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
Wayne and Layne, LLC

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I think your build didn’t work correctly for me because the paths were
> just wrong before my patch, so no plugins were found.
> I’ll retest when a new build has been made with the new paths.
> I guess it is not a problem for now.
>
> The rest about incompatibilities is just speculation, maybe also just my
> lack of real knowledge how python works under the hood.
>
> In extreme, imagine you built on a (imaginary) OS X 10.12 which only has
> python3 installed.
> So, the app bundle will contain wxPython stuff (binary libs and python
> packages) built with (or, against) python3, but no python interpreter
> itself.
> Now, imagine running this bundle on a 10.11 with python 2.7.
> Will this work?
> I don’t know.
> If python wrt to the wxPython stuff doesn’t know such bad things like ABI
> changes in binary C++ world, it is maybe no problem at all.
>
> This example is of course not (yet?) reality, but I hope you get the point
> I am concerned about.
> But maybe it is nothing to worry about at all…
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
>
> On 02 Oct 2015, at 21:42, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Don't worry, Andy, I'm not going to stop the OS X dmg releases!
>
> If no one else gets to this soon, I will dig into this.  I need to find
> out why my build isn't working for Bernhard, and figure out the matrix of
> OS X release and Python version that is currently supported, and figure out
> if there's actually a gap.
>
> Adam Wolf
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Oct 2, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <
>> stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Of course, we could switch back to some package manager like home-brew
>> or MacPorts on OS X, but you would lose the ability to just download and
>> run an app bundle (everyone would have to “build” his own version - even if
>> it is just a pre-built download). This is not very Apple-like (but again,
>> that’s probably only a matter of taste).
>>
>> I would like to be the voice of MANY Mac users who don’t want to deal
>> with a package manger (homebrew, MacPorts, whatever).  The ideal
>> distribution format is a disk image from which the user drags the
>> executable to any location. The next-to-ideal format is a standard OS X
>> installer package.
>>
>> -a
>>
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