Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:58:56 -0700, Ian Bicking <[email protected]>
wrote:
The other option could be to enable support for static linking so as
to make the egg a reasonably self-sufficient binary (eg: lxml's
--static flag to setup.py)
Just to throw more in the mix -- this option is totally ad hoc in
lxml, which means it's hard to handle in an installer like
easy_install or pip. That is, there's no good way to do
"easy_install --static lxml" (it's more possible in pip, but still
quite awkward).
Maybe we can standardize the ``--static`` flag for setup.py and
installers? The benefit of this is that builders and installers can
support a static build feature without having to hack build scripts
for specific packages (Currently PyPM's backend maintains custom code
for building such special packages).
Examples of usage::
$ python setup.py build --static install
$ easy_install --static lxml
$ pip install --install-option="--static" pip
I like your thoughts here, but there currently isn't a way to
distinguish between an egg that contains binaries that were linked
statically vs. dynamically. It seems like in that case we would need
some distinguishing flag in an egg name to signify it was linked
statically, and at that point it seems like we are trying to do too much.
Thoughts?
-Chris
-srid
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