[Pythonmac-SIG] PyXML install problems

[Christopher Barker]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

> I'll see about creating a repository  
> for universal packages sometime over the next few days (weekend is my  
> best guess).

Did you get a chance to take a look at my re-structuring of the 
pythonmac repository site? Anything else I can do to help?

While we are on the topic, I'm looking at building a couple packages 
that require external libs (PIL, matplotlib). In the past, I've tried to 
  build them as static libs and link them to the extensions to make it 
all self contained. I see two issues with this now;

1) How do I make Universal static lib?

2) We'll end up using the same libs over and over in multiple packages: 
Both PIL and matplotlib require libpng and libfreetype, for instance. I 
expect we'll see other overlapping libs.

a) Is there any problem with two different extensions being loaded that 
are linked to the same static lib, particularly if they are different 
versions?

b) If not, then I guess it's just a waste-of-memory issue, which 
probably isn't a big deal, but seems wasteful. I do think that any 
packages put on pythonmac.org should only depend on other packages 
available there. Perhaps we could make a "libs" package with a bunch of 
these common libs.

If we put them in the python tree, would the linker find them? Would 
Py2App find them?

Any thoughts?

-Chris


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