On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 October 2014 00:37, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 30 September 2014 15:31, David Genest <david.gen...@ubisoft.com> > wrote: > >> Ok, so what if the dll is shared in a given environment (multiple > extensions use it)?, the shared dll should be copied to every package? > Won't that cause multiple loads by the system? > > > > I honestly don't know in that case, sorry. You might get a better > > answer on python-list for that, if no-one here can help. > > > > Presumably the usage is all within one distribution, otherwise the > > question would have to be, which distribution ships the DLL? But that > > question ends up leading onto the sort of discussion that starts > > "well, I wouldn't design your system the way you have", which isn't > > likely to be of much help to you :-( > > > > Sorry I can't offer any more help. > > Note that this is the external binary dependency problem that the > scientific folks are currently using conda to address. It's basically > the point where you cross the line from "language specific packaging > system" to "multi-language cross-platform platform". > Conda is one such solution, not the solution ;) I don't know any "sumo" distribution which solves this problem correctly ATM, and windows makes this rather difficult to solve. David > That said, pip/wheel *may* get some capabilities along these lines in > the future, it just isn't a high priority at this point. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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