[Python-Dev] Optionally using GMP to implement long if available (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Nov 4 20:53:40 CET 2008

skip at pobox.com wrote:

>> OTOH, it should be no big deal to drop a zip archive of the GMP >> sources which correspond to the code bound into the DLL.

Martin> How would end users then extract the sources from the DLL? How Martin> would they learn that they even have them in the first place? I think you missed an implied comma in my statement. I meant: 1. distribute pythonxy.dll which binds to GMP. 2. distribute a gmpmn.zip which contains the source for the version used in #1.

Ah, I see. That is a big deal to many Python users, which want to distribute pythonxy.dll as part of their application, in a single file (e.g. py2exe), and then don't want to worry about shipping another zip file along with their single-file executable (plus including a third file explaining why you need to do this).

Regards, Martin

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