"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote: > > >>>>> "MvL" == Martin v Loewis <martin@v.loewis.de> writes: > > MvL> At the moment, declaring either eucJP or or Shift-JIS > MvL> wouldn't work with the proposed implementation, anyway, since > MvL> those encodings are not supported in the standard Python > MvL> installation. > > Which actually touches on something I wanted to bring up. Why don't > we include the Japanese codecs with Python? Is it just a size issue? > > The gzip'd tarball of the JapaneseCodecs-1.4.3 is 258k, unpacked it's > 3.2M. Okay, so that's nontrivial, but I can think of 2 approaches: > > - Have a second, sumo (no pun intended) release that inclues the > codecs > > - Include the gzip'd tarball and do a distutils install at Python > install time Why not simply make the installation a configure option ? We could easily extend setup.py to grab the tarball from the web in case it is needed. > I bet we'd win some Ruby converts if we did this <wink>. For > reference, I'm thinking about including the Japanese and Chinese > codecs with MM2.1 because it makes little sense to claim support for > those languages without them. Agreed. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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