Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage

[Paul Koning]

> On Jul 18, 2018, at 1:22 PM, Boris Kolpackov <bo...@codesynthesis.com> wrote:
> 
> Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> writes:
> 
>>> On Jul 18, 2018, at 11:13 AM, Boris Kolpackov <bo...@codesynthesis.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I wonder what will be the expected way to obtain a suitable version of
>>> Python if one is not available on the build machine? With awk I can
>>> build it from source pretty much anywhere. Is building newer versions
>>> of Python on older targets a similarly straightforward process (somehow
>>> I doubt it)? What about Windows?
>> 
>> It's the same sort of thing: untar the sources, configure, make, make
>> install.
> 
> Will this also install all the Python packages one might plausible want
> to use in GCC?

It installs the entire standard Python library (corresponding to the 1800+ 
pages of the library manual).  I expect that will easily cover anything GCC 
might want to do.

        paul