Building "non-standard" standard extensions

[Dave LeBlanc]

Of course, the downside is that once you integrate GPL code into your
Python, then it's tainted by the GPL and anything you build with it is
subsequently GPL'd. I think this is so because there was a lot of not
using GCC until they LGPL'd the libraries so that resulting code
wouldn't be GPL.

Regards,

Dave LeBlanc

On 29 Mar 2001 09:13:43 +0200, Martin von Loewis
<loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

>Paul Moore <gustav at morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> However, I do have a binary version of the readline library
>> available. Can I build the readline module for Windows usingh this?
>> Ideally, I'd like to do this *without* having to rebuild the whole
>> of Python for Windows (I'm happy with just using the normal build
>> for everything else). I've never built Python for myself, so
>> apologies if the answer to this is "obvious"...
>
>Building the readline module alone should be possible. I'm not sure
>whether the interactive interpreter will use it - it only tries if
>stdin isatty.
>
>> (BTW, this doesn't just apply to readline - I have various other libraries
>> such as a curses port, which I wouldn't mind trying to integrate as well...)
>
>That should work as well.
>
>Regards,
>Martin