Hi,
If user enable the ncursesw opt, how many py- ports will be broken?On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 05:56:24PM +0800, Rong-En Fan wrote: > Currently, due to readline module links against libreadline.so > which links libncurses.so. If python is compiled to use ncursesw, > when importing readline module, it brings *both* ncurses and > ncursesw. This may cause problems, so that why we disable linking > against ncursesw in files/patch-setup.py. > > However, this disables the ability to use ncursesw in some python > scripts. Also, it seems that other distributions, like Debian, > actually links to ncursesw and I'm not aware of any issues with > that. > > So, bottom line is we add an option to lang/python25, so that > for users want to use ncursesw, they can enable. In the future, > if we solve the readline issue, we should make this as default. > > Any suggestions? -- Alan Cheng-Lung Sung - clsung@
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