On 10/04/2018 06:51 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
I don't know. Realistically, any decent distributor of Python
should include those optional modules, and I don't remember
encountering a Python that doesn't has them.
What is the point, then, of making these packages optional in the first
place? Shouldn't by that logic a missing dependency rather trigger a
build failure /unless/ someone enables a certain switch (e.g.
‘--without-xz’), e.g. for special-purpose distribution.
Adding a note saying otherwise in the docs may pointlessly scare users away.
Possibly. But not saying anything isn't the best alternative under these
circumstances.
Thanks,
Marcus
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