On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
On Linux applications are typically bundled as minimal packages that depend on other packages. I believe we are also very close to being able to do this with Chandler on Ubuntu. However, if we move to python 2.5 that would mean this would not be possible on Ubuntu Dapper Drake, our currently supported version.
You mean there is no Python 2.5 package that is available via apt-get for Dapper Drake ? That would be unfortunate indeed.
Then there is Windows which typically doesn't have any of the components we need. To make matters worse, even if there was python installed on the system it might be the official python or ActiveState python, and I doubt our binary extensions would work with ActiveState python. On Windows we also face the problem that if there is a system python, our binary extensions must be compiled with exactly the same compiler or they won't work. Currently we use the same compiler as the official python, but that hasn't always been the case and may not be the case going forward.
That's not true, is it ? PyLucene is a Python extension built with gcj, even on Windows.
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