[Distutils] [setuptools] eggs and Python Unicode variants (UCS2, UCS4)

[Tres Seaver]

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Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Any feedback on this? Nobody cares that Python eggs compiled with a 
> linux distribution version of Python don't run on hand-compiled versions 
> of Python, and vice versa? I added [setuptools] to the topic in case 
> that's the convention to get people concerned with those to pay 
> attention. :)

I care. :)  The "Python ABI" of an egg *is* part of its "signature", I
think.  I don't know for what use cases the UCS4 stuff was designed, but
it is *never* what I want (doubling space requirements for all unicode
strings is a recipe for an unhappy long-running process).

I'd actually settle for having setuptools just refuse to install an
incompatible binary egg, so that I would realize I needed to build it
from source.


Tres.
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