Re: [Distutils] Dynamic linking between Python modules (was: Beyond wheels 1.0: helping downstream, FHS and more)

2015-05-14 Thread Chris Barker
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: anyway) you now have three copies of the same lib (but maybe different versions) all linked into your executable. Maybe there is no downside to that (I haven't had a problem yet), but it seems like a bad way to

Re: [Distutils] Dynamic linking between Python modules (was: Beyond wheels 1.0: helping downstream, FHS and more)

2015-05-14 Thread Chris Barker
I'm confused -- you don't want a system to be able to install ONE version of a lib that various python packages can all link to? That's really the key use-case for me Are we talking about Python libraries accessed via Python APIs, or linking to external dependencies not written in

Re: [Distutils] Dynamic linking between Python modules (was: Beyond wheels 1.0: helping downstream, FHS and more)

2015-05-14 Thread Robert Collins
On 15 May 2015 at 06:01, Chris Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: I'm confused -- you don't want a system to be able to install ONE version of a lib that various python packages can all link to? That's really the key use-case for me Are we talking about Python libraries accessed