"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 09:15 PM 12/15/2004 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: >>I have a first working version of an importer which can import extension >>modules from zipfiles, avoiding to unpack them to the file system. >>License is still LGPL, unfortunately. >> >>Subscribers to the py2exe-users list already know that it uses this code >>which simulates the windows LoadLibrary call: >> >> http://www.joachim-bauch.de/tutorials/load_dll_memory.html >> >>It works in simple cases, the only ones that I have tested so far. >> >>Shall I publish it for experimentation? > > Doesn't this technique require an extension module, which would mean > in turn that we can't bootstrap it from the zipfile? That is, it > would have to be included in Python, which the LGPL would rule out > anyway. > > Still, it sounds most interesting.
In case you haven't seen the announcement I made here's the link: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/Hacks_2fZipExtImporter > I hope in another week or two to have some time to hammer out a > prototype for a self-extract API and a setuptools extension to build a > basic archive format. I'm thinking that rather than allowing metadata > to be a holdup, I'd like to get a base implementation we can > experiment with. In that regard, your technique sounds useful too, > but I'm kind of wary about the licensing issue. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
