Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > As for test_ttk and such, those that have a third-party dependency are > still optional no matter what. This change is **only** for modules we > expect to always build on certain platfoms (e.g., winreg under Windows > or crypt on UNIX systems).
Ah, thanks for pointing that out to me. That's certainly better than what I thought :) > I mean do we really think ctypes is optional at this point? Why wouldn't it be? It doesn't offer any essential functionality, and most applications and libraries certainly don't depend on it. It's far more optional than zlib (which a bunch of stdlib functionality relies on) IMO. What's more, standard C isn't enough to compile ctypes (as you witnessed with LLVM). So, really, making absence of ctypes a failure sounds too severe to me. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10966> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
