X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:47:05 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.24 -2 cygwin python 2.5.1 problem, "import sqlite3" fail Message-ID: <20071105234705.GA3645@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <677d37110711050406l571db71chd8f92bf0a4af7157@mail.gmail.com> <20071105161913.GA3008@tishler.net> <20071105211617.GA2964@tishler.net> <472F9072.9494BBBC@dessent.net> <472FA24D.D7964B75@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <472FA24D.D7964B75@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:07:57PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>As far as I understood Jason, he just needs the SQLite headers and >>libraries to /build/ Python with SQLite support, and he doesn't need >>them to be "in Cygwin". > >That would be silly, because it would result in a totally broken python >that would continue to throw ImportError on "import sqlite3" because >the user would have no cygsqlite3-0.dll on their system, with no way to >get it unless they installed third party packages that aren't part of >Cygwin. Besides, requiring packages not in the distro in order to >build a package is not kosher. The distro must be self-consistent. Yes. What he said. Jason understands what it means to add this support. Thorsten does not. Unless someone wants to support SQLite3 (which would be a welcome addition to Cygwin), I think this thread has gone on for about six messages longer than it should have. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/