On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Sanjeet Kumar wrote:
We are using pylucence in an application and have compiled and build jcc and pylucene successfully on Debian/Ubuntu. We now want to be able to "distribute" our application as a more or less self-contained zip file for use on any flavor of Linux (eg. CentOS, Redhat, etc.). It will contain our code as well as the pylucene binaries. The only external requirements should be that the appropriate versions of python and Java be installed on the user's system. This works cleanly on a new Ubuntu system, but we had some initial problems with CentOS. While we debug further, the question is: Will this approach work? We'd like to avoid having to compile and build JCC and pylucene on all the distributions.
I doubt that this will be practical as quite a few things have to be lined up for this work reliably:
- 32- vs 64-bit builds of java and python - width of python's unicode character (16- or 32-bit, a configure option) - versions of the underlying system libraries used - locations of underlying libraries used - others I can't think of at the moment Andi..
