X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-50.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin In-Reply-To: <20100623195509.GA20520@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> References: <1277282895.5496.47.camel@YAAKOV04> <20100623112002.GA2828@tishler.net> <1277322718.5452.63.camel@YAAKOV04> <20100623195509.GA20520@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:04:02 -0500 Message-ID: <1277323442.5452.78.camel@YAAKOV04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, 2010-06-23 at 15:55 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. And you're not the only one. The problem with that is it can pull in old libraries which (if nothing else depends on them) are simply not necessary, and e.g. on my system, ImageBase real estate is at a premium. Here's a radical question: do we really need to allow for multiple versions of every package? Other distros don't do this, why should we? Yaakov -- 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