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Subject: Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:51:58 -0500
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On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 07:20 -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Done.
> 
> However, if a user downgrades from python-2.6.5-2 to python-2.5.5-1,
> then the ncurses dependency will not be correct -- it should be
> libncurses10 instead of libncursesw10.

That's a general problem with setup: it doesn't allow for different
requires: for curr: and prev:.  I always keep my deps correct for curr:,
figuring that users will have prev:s deps from when it was curr:.


Yaakov



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