> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 07:52:05AM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote: > >... > > Are there many other applications which > > use compression? If so, would it do > > be feasible to include it by default > > from version 1.6? > > I believe the correct approach would be to have ./configure look for zlib. > If present, then it should include the module into the build. > [ this auto-build style could apply to many modules, actually ] > > There would need to be a way to override this auto-build of a module. > > >... > > p.s. I can submit a patch if needed :-) > > This would be great. I'd recommend a patch against configure.in and > associated files. (Modules/Setup.* ?) Greg subtly points out the difficulty with your proposal: this requires an external library that may not be available. In the past we've had enough complaints from people who failed to realize that if the build failed because of a missing external library, they could just disable the module that needs it. So I'm not for simply having it enabled in Setup.in by default. I would love to have a mechanism (run by configure or maybe better by makesetup) that automatically determines if a particular external library package is available. Come to think of it, in first approximation, makesetup could easily parse the -I, -L and -l options you specify for a particular extension and only build it if it can find all those... But it's a bit of work! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/)
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