Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> added the comment:

Martin, just to be clear: the purpose of the new feature *is* to allow the 
choice between 32-bit/64-bit and that is important.  My comment was that the 
downside of the submitted fix, as it stands, would be to not allow choosing 
archs only for pythons built with the 10.4u SDKs.  And with the 10.4u SDK, 
those pythons are and can only be 32-bit so the only arch choice there would be 
between 32-bit Intel and 32-bit PPC and the only environment where that could 
mean anything is on a 10.5 or 10.6 Intel machine where, in theory, it should be 
possible to run 32-bit PPC pythons in emulation mode. For pythons built with 
10.5 or 10.6 SDKs (in as yet to be supplied python.org installers), then the 
arch feature allows choice among the up-to 4 archs in the build: 32/64, 
Intel/PPC.  The proposed fix doesn't alter that aspect of the new feature at 
all.  But the patch needs to be redone anyway so, if the weak linking is added, 
there wouldn't even be that very small drawback.

OS X multi-architecture executables: complicated!

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