Currently, due to readline module links against libreadline.so which links libncurses.so. If python is compiled to use ncursesw, when importing readline module, it brings *both* ncurses and ncursesw. This may cause problems, so that why we disable linking against ncursesw in files/patch-setup.py.
However, this disables the ability to use ncursesw in some python scripts. Also, it seems that other distributions, like Debian, actually links to ncursesw and I'm not aware of any issues with that. So, bottom line is we add an option to lang/python25, so that for users want to use ncursesw, they can enable. In the future, if we solve the readline issue, we should make this as default. Any suggestions? Regards, Rong-En Fan
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