On 11/26/05, Mike Hearn <mike@...869...> wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:41:30 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
If not linking, can we at least provide our own binary of python in the package? This would solve it for all platforms.
It may be possible, but Python is enormous, it'd hugely increase the download size. And that approach doesn't really scale when other projects start doing it too. The Python unicode issues were hit first with Scribus.
Not so enormous if we inlclude only what WE need. And disk space is cheap. Much cheaper than the efforts of developers trying to work around innumerable incompatibilities and bugs. Given that even you cannot identify a perfect solution, I think this one is the best in the long run. Especially important is that it's actually a solution for all platforms, without which no solution is actually a solution at all.
Of course installers can offer the option of not installing Python if the user so desires. And/or, we could offer -with-python and -without-python installers to choose from.
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