On 11/26/05, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
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.
concerning mac os X, both 10.3 and 10.4 comes with 2.3 but both of them don't have pyXML. I downloaded and installed it and everything works like a charm now (for python a least because there are still Perl problems). I tried to produce a "binary" (a dmg that people can just open and copy to their python directory) but no one tested it yet. If it works it will be the solution of OSX: it's just 1 Mb.
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