On 23/11/2007, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 :-)
I'd agree with that, but for the ones I've tried so far, Christian has made it simple enough that it's not really an issue - you simply svn export the externals, and then the build just works. It's possible that TCL/Tk may be harder (particularly as there are 3 packages, TCL, Tk and Tix) - if so, then having binaries for that may be useful. But for the rest, it makes little difference. Paul. _______________________________________________ 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