On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 02:48:47PM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 07:56 PM 4/9/2006 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: [...] > >-1. These aren't external libraries; they are part of Python. > > They *were* external libraries. Also, many OS vendors nonetheless split > the standard library into different system packages, e.g. Debian's > longstanding tradition of excising the distutils into a separate python-dev > package.
Debian has fixed this bug. The entire standard library, including distutils, is now in the python2.4 package. The python2.4-dev package mainly contains header files now. This has been true for some time; it's certainly the case in the current stable release. > As much as we might wish that vendors not do these things, they often have > practical matters of continuity and documentation to deal with; if they > currently have a "python-ctypes" package, for example, they may wish to > maintain that even when ctypes is bundled with 2.5. They can do that just by shipping an empty "python-ctypes" package that depends on the full python package. -Andrew. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
