[Chandler-dev] re: Python 2.5?

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> On Linux applications are typically bundled as minimal packages that 
> depend on other packages. I believe we are also very close to being able 
> to do this with Chandler on Ubuntu. However, if we move to python 2.5 
> that would mean this would not be possible on Ubuntu Dapper Drake, our 
> currently supported version.

You mean there is no Python 2.5 package that is available via apt-get for 
Dapper Drake ? That would be unfortunate indeed.

> Then there is Windows which typically doesn't have any of the components
> we need. To make matters worse, even if there was python installed on
> the system it might be the official python or ActiveState python, and I
> doubt our binary extensions would work with ActiveState python. On
> Windows we also face the problem that if there is a system python, our
> binary extensions must be compiled with exactly the same compiler or
> they won't work. Currently we use the same compiler as the official
> python, but that hasn't always been the case and may not be the case
> going forward.

That's not true, is it ? PyLucene is a Python extension built with gcj, even 
on Windows.

Andi..