Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > As a packager, is the libmpdec library used elsewhere? For Gentoo, we > generally prefer to package libraries separately and have Python > depend on them. From the site, it seems like you more or less wrote > libmpdec for usage in Python, but if it's general-purpose and actually > used in other software, it would be nice if Python grew a configure > option to make it use the system libmpdec.
libmpdec was actually written before the module. It's general purpose and it fully implements the specification. I'm only aware of in-house usage. Someone has tried to submit a libmpdec package to OpenSUSE, but it was rejected with the claim that there already exists a package with the name. I think the claim is false: There is a libmpcdec package, where "cdec" presumably stands for "codec". I'll add the --with-system-libmpdec option with the caveat that changes will probably make it first into the libmpdec shipped with Python, see also: http://bugs.python.org/issue7652#msg155744 On the bright side, I don't expect many changes, since the specification is stable. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com