On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:07:57PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>As far as I understood Jason, he just needs the SQLite headers and >>libraries to /build/ Python with SQLite support, and he doesn't need >>them to be "in Cygwin". > >That would be silly, because it would result in a totally broken python >that would continue to throw ImportError on "import sqlite3" because >the user would have no cygsqlite3-0.dll on their system, with no way to >get it unless they installed third party packages that aren't part of >Cygwin. Besides, requiring packages not in the distro in order to >build a package is not kosher. The distro must be self-consistent.
Yes. What he said. Jason understands what it means to add this support. Thorsten does not. Unless someone wants to support SQLite3 (which would be a welcome addition to Cygwin), I think this thread has gone on for about six messages longer than it should have. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
