Japanese codecs (was Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 263 -- Python Source Code Encoding) (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:53:55 -0500

"MAL" == M <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

MAL> Why not simply make the installation a configure option ?

MAL> We could easily extend setup.py to grab the tarball from 
MAL> the web in case it is needed.

That's another option. Certainly stuff like that is becoming fairly common for installers these days.

>> I bet we'd win some Ruby converts if we did this <wink>.  For
>> reference, I'm thinking about including the Japanese and
>> Chinese codecs with MM2.1 because it makes little sense to
>> claim support for those languages without them.

MAL> Agreed.

-Barry