On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:13:25PM +0100, Aleix Conchillo Flaqu? wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > > > > Fink often has newer versions of libraries than apple does, and > > switching packages between using apple's vs fink's dependencies is > > difficult at best. For this specific case, I'm assuming you're on > > 10.5: 10.4 does not have expat, so would need to play a lot of > > compatibility games or else each OS would need entirely separate > > package sets anything that used expat. The main reason many have > > pushed hard to use apple's openssl is for licensing and/or US > > cryptography-export-restriction reasons...fink's openssl is newer than > > apple's, last I checked. > > Yes, 10.5 here. For backwards compatibility the thing is clear and I > also understand the versions issue. > > Currently the openssl version is the same, 0.9.7l, and expat is only a > bit older, apple's 2.0.0, fink's 2.0.1.
Interestingly, neither the main python25 packages nor the socket module packages actually appear to link libexpat at all and it was easy enough to have the socket lib link against apple's openssl (which solves a licensing issue), so now fink's "python25" package does it all and the external socket packages are empty dummies. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
