Staging
v0.8.1
v0.8.1
https://github.com/python/cpython
Tip revision: 74f4bd53e03ded8408bcc2de67cf0f5a4ac5b1a1 authored by Barry Warsaw on 23 February 2012, 15:59:38 UTC
Bump some more copyright years (as per PEP 101), since this is the first
Bump some more copyright years (as per PEP 101), since this is the first
Tip revision: 74f4bd5
README.txt
Building a MacPython distribution
=================================
The ``build-install.py`` script creates MacPython distributions, including
sleepycat db4, sqlite3 and readline support. It builds a complete
framework-based Python out-of-tree, installs it in a funny place with
$DESTROOT, massages that installation to remove .pyc files and such, creates
an Installer package from the installation plus other files in ``resources``
and ``scripts`` and placed that on a ``.dmg`` disk image.
Prerequisites
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* A MacOS X 10.4 (or later)
* XCode 2.2 (or later), with the universal SDK
* No Fink (in ``/sw``) or DarwinPorts (in ``/opt/local``), those could
interfere with the build.
* The documentation for the release must be available on python.org
because it is included in the installer.
The Recipe
----------
Here are the steps you need to follow to build a MacPython installer:
* Run ``./build-installer.py``. Optionally you can pass a number of arguments
to specify locations of various files. Please see the top of
``build-installer.py`` for its usage.
Running this script takes some time, I will not only build Python itself
but also some 3th-party libraries that are needed for extensions.
* When done the script will tell you where the DMG image is (by default
somewhere in ``/tmp/_py``).
Building a 4-way universal installer
....................................
It is also possible to build a 4-way universal installer that runs on
OSX Leopard or later::
$ ./build-installer.py --dep-target=10.5 --universal-archs=all --sdk=/
This requires that the deployment target is 10.5 (or later), and hence
also that your building on at least OSX 10.5.
Testing
-------
The resulting binaries should work on MacOSX 10.3.9 or later. I usually run
the installer on a 10.3.9, a 10.4.x PPC and a 10.4.x Intel system and then
run the testsuite to make sure.
Announcements
-------------
(This is mostly of historic interest)
When all is done, announcements can be posted to at least the following
places:
- pythonmac-sig@python.org
- python-dev@python.org
- python-announce@python.org
- archivist@info-mac.org
- adcnews@apple.com
- news@macnn.com
- http://www.macupdate.com
- http://guide.apple.com/usindex.lasso
- http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/submit
- http://www.versiontracker.com/ (userid Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com)
- http://www.macshareware.net (userid jackjansen)
Also, check out Stephan Deibels http://pythonology.org/market contact list