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Graham Dumpleton
grahamd at dscpl.com.au
Sat Jul 30 03:23:08 EDT 2005
On 30/07/2005, at 4:57 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 13:20 -0500, Jon-Pierre Gentil wrote: > >> If you are trying to install it from redhat's >> package system, and it requires you to install -devel packages >> just for >> it to work, then it is a shortcoming in Redhat, not mod_python. >> > > Just to be clear on this point, but not try to further this aspect of > the thread, I do wholeheartedly agree with your above point. The > reason > for needing the python2-devel package is that it is where (presumably) > Redhat put all the non-english and non-unicode encodings. I can > see why > they might have put this in a separate package, but I can't agree that > it belongs in -devel. If I recollect properly, the separate python-devel package only contains the "config" directory and "include" files. This "config" directory contains a makefile and other bits that could be used to create your own static Python binary with your own extensions statically linked in. The makefile in that directory is also consulted by the "distutils" modules which practically all Python related packages use to perform installation of a Python package. Can't remember if the absence of the "config" directory will prevent a pure Python package being installed using "distutils", but if the "config" directory or "include" directory are missing, you most definitely can't build or install a Python package which has C/C++ code based extensions that have to be compiled against Python, ie., like mod_python. I somewhat doubt that the non-english and non-unicode encoders were in the python-devel package as they have nothing to do with development and would very much need to be a part of the main runtime package. I haven't touched a Linux system in years, but it was an annoyance that some Linux distributions had this separate python-devel package as it meant you had to go find the extras CD to install even the most trivial of Python packages. :-( Graham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mm_cfg_has_not_been_edited_to_set_host_domains/pipermail/mod_python/attachments/20050730/6a9e7640/attachment.html
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