Re: [xml] python bindings on windows

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:30:49AM +0100, Stéphane Bidoul wrote:
> 2. #include "config.h" does not work on Windows.
>
> I'm not sure if this is Python's config.h or libxml's.
> I commented it out (maybe it shoud be #ifdef'd) in
> - gnome-xml/python/generator.py
> - gnome-xml/python/libxml.c
> - libxslt/python/generator.py
> - libxslt/python/libxslt.c

   Hum, I don't remember why I had to include it ...

> 3. To build using the MERGED_MODULES option, I had to copy
> a few files from libxslt/python to libxml2/python. I don't know
> the correct way to do that, or if there is an script
> that does it. I did it manually.

  I do that when preparing a release usually. I store the resulting
tars in ftp://xmlsoft.org/python/

> If there is some interest for such an approach, 
> I can post the installer somewhere, so you can give it a try.

  Well, I can't try it myself.

> What I would like to do also is discuss wether it
> is worthwhile putting such a change in the main CVS,
> or if I should maintain this way of packaging
> separately.

  I'm still not sure how intrusive it is... hard to tell

Daniel

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