Fredrik Lundh wrote: > but seriously, given how easy it is to build things with distutils, I don't > think your > configuration folks would have much trouble adding support for "anything that > has > a setup file, and is reasonably self-contained" to their build scripts.
True. It's one more thing to keep track of though. It's a separate configuration item. We need to keep track of which version to use, and it needs to get built, installed and validated on all supported platforms. I already include Twisted (and thus ZopeInterface) like that. We sometimes need high speed in XML parsing, so I'd like to use cElementTree, but just like the two other packages, I assume that it's unproblematic to build the included C code. So, you're right, it's not much trouble, just two more pebbles (cElementTree and ElementTree) on a fairly heavy load, where stuff like Oracle and MQ Series are more like boulders. Right now, I would like to improve the performace of a program that does a lot of XML parsing. I haven't profiled that yet, so I don't know if XML parsing is the bottle neck, but if I can improve perfor- mance significantly with cElementTree, I'll certainly push for that. /Magnus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
