Hi! As I'm packaging a new version of the Yehia library (ucxx.sf.net), for which I'm upstream, too, I encounter the following 'problem':
Yehia is (to a great extent) about presenting C++ interfaces to scripting languages (such as Python, which is ATM the only working scripting language supported by Yehia). The scripting interfaces are loaded at runtime either by a C++ program (that uses Python as extension language) or by a python script running in the interpreter. However, this interpreter must be linked with C++ for the following reasons: * Exceptions don't work when the executable is linked by C. * g++ doesn't seem to link libstdc++ into libraries. That means the executable has to be linked against libstc++. As the standard Python interpreter (and any interpreter for a language supported by Yehia in the future (FYI: Guile support is held up by a GOOPS bug)) doesn't fullfill this requirements, I want to provide a C++ linked version of the respective interpreters (only Python for now) along with my Yehia packages (and built from Yehia source). Probably the best solution would be to create a seperate package of just the interpreter, and depend on that, since other packages may have the same requirements. So, now there are the questions: * How to name the package (python-c++ or python-cpp seem reasonable)? * How to name the executable (should be the same as pkg name)? * How to handle the different version of the interpreter (such as python 1.5/2.1/2.2)? If those package(s) are really built from Yehia source, there would be only one package, for the 'current standard' version of the interpreter. * Could the debian python (and guile, etc.) pkgs provide a c++-linked version? Regards, Andy (please CC: me or debian-devel, as I'm not on debian-python) -- Andreas Rottmann | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.8ung.at/rotty | GnuPG Key: http://www.8ung.at/rotty/gpg.asc Fingerprint | DFB4 4EB4 78A4 5EEE 6219 F228 F92F CFC5 01FD 5B62 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
