Hi Garret, The requirement for the library came from installer group. Originally we are planning to deliver the library in C, since the text/auto installers currently are getting re-written in Python, as per their request, we changed the implementation to python. (Sure writing it in C and provide python bindings is a possibility, but compared to python, the development time will be much more in C, and we were not aware of C requirements for a CLDR interface library)
What we can realistically do is to work on a C implementation after this python library is integrated (and installers can use it), and at that point replace the existing library with python bindings to that C library. regards, Suresh > > I think you're probably approaching this backwards. With most other > languages (not sure about Python), its usually easier to provide the > underlying implementation in C, and add language bindings on top. > > In particular, I'd be really unhappy if accessing g11n services > required a program written in C to bring in a Python runtime. > > - Garrett >
