Re: how to distribute python extensions independently of python

2009-02-16 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2009-02-12 18:38, Travis wrote: So, Recently I made a fix to the zlib module that I need for use at work. I would like other employees to be able to use it without recompiling python. I assume I can just rename it and distribute it as a python extension. I was wondering how I can

Re: how to distribute python extensions independently of python

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-02-12 11:38, Travis wrote: So, Recently I made a fix to the zlib module that I need for use at work. Would you mind contributing this fix back to Python? http://bugs.python.org/ If you don't want to go to the effort of making a patch, at least a description of the problem you

how to distribute python extensions independently of python

2009-02-12 Thread Travis
So, Recently I made a fix to the zlib module that I need for use at work. I would like other employees to be able to use it without recompiling python. I assume I can just rename it and distribute it as a python extension. I was wondering how I can provide a way for other employees to build

Re: how to distribute python extensions independently of python

2009-02-12 Thread andrew cooke
You might want to read https://www.dfwpython.org/repo/Presentations/2008-10-04-PyArkansas-PythonEggsIntro/eggs-introduction.pdf It covers a lot of ground; I used it to work out how to distribute a pure Python package, but I am sure it mentions compiled packages too. In my case I ended up using