[Chandler-dev] New test running tool: rt.py

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:57 PM 4/2/2007 -0400, Mike Taylor wrote:
>Chandler's Python is not compiled with ctypes which is now needed.
>Cygwin people will have to upgrade to Python 2.5 from Cygwin.

I'm confused.  If ctypes is needed, why aren't we compiling it?  And what 
does Cygwin's Python have to do with anything?  (I specifically keep mine 
at 2.3 in order to do setuptools testing, and AFAIK Cygwin's package 
manager doesn't support having multiple installed Python versions.)

It seems kind of strange that we should be requiring people to install a 
second version of Python in order to support a tool we added that requires 
part of the stdlib that we don't build...  I mean, why go out of our way to 
patch Python *not* to build part of its standard library, just so we can 
then make people have to install another whole copy of Python, separately?

(Note, by the way, that *not* building ctypes potentially breaks other 
parts of the stdlib - the new Python "uuid" module uses it, for example.)