On Jan 6, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 02:11 PM 1/6/2006 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: >> Unless you do something really magical, you're going to find a lot of >> resistance to this in most Linux distro camps. Gentoo will want to >> recompile via emerge. Fedora/CentOS will want to grab from yum. >> Debian >> will want to grab libs via apt. > > The issue for the PyICU/PyLucene etc. use cases is that there are a > whole > bunch of SWIG wrappers for different extensions, but with a large > common > library for type mapping etc. The authors want a shared library > for *their > own code* that is used by multiple extensions. This is not separately > distributed code.
It'd be better if these projects just fixed themselves to do things the "right" way, using a Python extension and a function table. -bob _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
