[Chandler-dev] Custom python?

[Morgen Sagen]

A long time ago I put in a windows-specific patch to tell Python not  
to look in the windows registry for installed modules.  This was to  
keep Chandler from using whatever version of wxPython the user  
happened to have installed, for example.  I don't know if this patch  
is even in place anymore, but that's the only issue I can think of.

~morgen

On Nov 1, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> We have had a long standing goal of wanting to not build and ship our
> own python (at least on the Mac and Linux where we should be able to
> rely on the system having python already).
>
> I was going through the python patches we have again, and it is not
> immediately obvious to me why we would need a patched Python for  
> Mac and
> Linux (for Windows there could be some confusion if there already  
> was a
> Python installation, but this could potentially be worked around by
> making the installer smarter).
>
> There is a Mac specific patch that seems to be needed only because we
> build our own Python, and does not actually change the Python  
> executable
> itself in any way that we'd care about.
>
> The other patch disables bsddb bsddb/test stdlibs, does some more  
> stuff
> that seems specific to building our own python, and does a Windows
> change we might be able to skip by doing a smarter installer (install
> python if there is no python already, otherwise use system python).
>
> So, anybody see any reasons why we'd still need our own python?
>
> -- 
>   Heikki Toivonen
>
>
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