On 18-apr-2006, at 23:48, Christopher Barker wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> On 13-apr-2006, at 18:47, Zachary Pincus wrote: >>> Also, a related query: Is there somewhere in the Python Framework >>> structure that is appropriate for placing dynamic libraries that >>> Python would link to? > >> I don't see what this would buy us. It is possible to do this, but >> IMHO not really worth the trouble. > > I don't think it would buy anything for readline, but it would for > libs > that are used by multiple python extensions, like libpng and > libfreetype, for instance.
Why? I'd prefer to have fully self contained packages, and preferably eggs at that. Having a shared libary makes it *harder* to independendly update extensions using libpng or libfreetype. I'll have to package up my package build script one of these days ;-) Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
