On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:10:01PM -0400, Chris Lawrence wrote: > Not bloody likely. It's possible that with the advent of -minimal > that reportbug could manage to use that subset of the Python standard > library, but a rewrite in C (with its fundamentally broken string > handling) isn't going to happen.
So isn't it possible to compile Python code to an ELF executable? Like this: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Freeze Then you could distribute reportbug as byte-code, not requiring to have a Python interpreter installed to run, but still have the source in Python. > (In any event, if you have a bug in an embedded system chances are > you're the sort of user who can fire up mailx and format the report > manually... it isn't that hard) Well, yes, but it is unconvinient. I also want to use a flash disk instead of a HDD in my laptop, so I am trying to fix the whole system under 256 MB. reportbug is the only thing that depends on Python on it now, and removing that dependency would help me greatly. P.S. Isn't this a bug that I _did_not_ get the message which I am replying to now to my mailbox? I had to fetch it from the web? Was your message supposed to reach me? If so can someone check was it sent to me? -- Miernik _________________________ xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________/_______________________/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why software shouldn't be covered by patents http://bladeenc.mp3.no/articles/software_patents.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
