X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:55:10 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result Message-ID: <20100623195509.GA20520@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1277282895.5496.47.camel@YAAKOV04> <20100623112002.GA2828@tishler.net> <1277322718.5452.63.camel@YAAKOV04> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1277322718.5452.63.camel@YAAKOV04> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 02:51:58PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >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:. I've opted for using the union of previous and curr requirements but that's not really too great either. This is one of many places where we could use a real package manager. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple