Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I do see the point you are making here. Even if lxml gets mature and >> static, that doesn't necessarily apply to the external libraries it uses. >> However, I should note that exactly the same argument also applies to >> sqlite3 and gdbm, which, again, are in the stdlib today, with sqlite3 being >> a fairly recent addition. > > Fortunately, it is possible for users to just replace the sqlite DLL in > a Python installation, with no need of recompiling anything.
Interesting. I assume you are referring to Windows here, right? Does that "just work" because the DLL is in the same directory? That would be a nice feature for lxml, too. We could just make the libxml2 and libxslt DLLs package data under Windows in that case. Stefan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
