On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:50:40 +0200 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:52:51 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > The plausible story being that we basically wrap an existing library? > > > I don't think PyPy et al have pure Python versions of the zlib or > > > OpenSSL, do they? > > > > > > If we start taking PEP 399 conformance to such levels, we might as well > > > stop developing CPython. > > > > It's acceptable for the Python version to use ctypes in the case of > > wrapping an existing library, but the Python version should still > > exist. > > I think you're taking this too seriously. Our extension modules (_bz2, > _ssl...) are *already* optional even on CPython. If the library or its > development headers are not available on the system, building these > extensions is simply skipped, and the test suite passes nonetheless. > The only required libraries for passing the tests being basically the > libc and the zlib. ...and, apparently, pyexpat... _______________________________________________ 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
