On 2007-11-23 18:40, Christian Heimes wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Why not include the prebuilt libraries of all external libs in SVN >> as well ? > > For one I'm still using Beta 2 of the standard edition and I'm not > allowed to distribute binaries build with the Beta. With the new > pre-build steps it's also very easy to build the dependencies. I don't > like to add more binaries to the svn repos.
Fair enough - was just thinking that people compiling Python on Windows are probably more interested in compiling the Python code itself, rather than getting the 3rd party tools to compile :-) >> BTW: Are you including the patented algorithms in the standard >> OpenSSL build or excluding them ? >> >> The patented ones are RC5, IDEA and MDC2: > > [snip] > >> I'd opt for not including these algorithms, as it's just >> too easy for the user to overlook this license requirement. > > Thanks for thinking about license problems! I didn't even think about > checking the licenses since I was under the impression that restricted > algorithms are disabled by default. > > I've disabled IDEA in the makefiles and configure headers of openssl. > I've also added another step to the makefile patcher in build_ssl. It > makes sure that the three algorithms are disabled. Thanks. Much appreciated. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 23 2007) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 _______________________________________________ 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
