On 03/23/2017 03:45 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
The information must be somewhere because Python must have been compiled frequently and correctly for the various (important) OSs before making it available to the public. And I do not think that it is left up to "your luck" that the required packages and libraries are present.
Of course it's true that people don't just compile things by luck, but it's also true that the issue is kind of beyond cpython. The best you could really expect is for cpython to say the following libraries with the following major numbers are required (possibly with links to the websites for the sources). It's out of the cpython programmers control how these libraries are made available on the many different systems and distributions that python is used on. If you use it on distro a and you want to compile it, it's basically your responsibility to figure out how to get the libraries.
So really the main conclusion is that you should probably figure out how to use your distribution wisely to find this information. For any systems providing something similar to apt-get build-dep it's pretty easy (which _is_ your situation and hence you have already solved your problem). For others...well if you choose to use such a system it's your responsibility.
As much as it was irritating not learning these tricks earlier, you do now know them and should be fine going forward...
Cheers, Thomas -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
