X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:59:27 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result Message-ID: <20100624075927.GT8163@calimero.vinschen.de> 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> <20100623195509.GA20520@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <1277323442.5452.78.camel@YAAKOV04> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1277323442.5452.78.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 Jun 23 15:04, Yaakov S wrote: > 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? Fedora does, for instance, as soon as packages have been updated at least once. There's always a way to go back to the previous package, which is rather helpful if a package shows strange behaviour after an update. Happened to me the week before with a package in F13. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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