[Distutils] Providing binary packages for Python versions with different internal unicode representation

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Apr 24 18:20:14 CEST 2008


At 05:40 PM 4/24/2008 +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Python interpreters can be compiled by different internal unicode
>representations (UCS2 vs. UCS4). Extension modules using unicode 
>methods of Python internally can not be used with a Python 
>interpreter with a different
>internal unicode representation. What's the deal when you want to provide
>binary packages of an extension module for Python interpreters with 
>different unicode representations....is there some support for doing this
>using setuptools?

Nope.  I've posted before, asking about trying to resolve this and 
other issues with the distutils "platform" string format, but there's 
never been anybody with sufficient interest+knowledge to really do 
anything about it for distutils or setuptools.



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