[Distutils] Wheels and dependent third party dlls on windows

[Daniel Holth]

Or you could just create a Python package that only contains the dll,
and depend on it from your others.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 October 2014 00:37, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 30 September 2014 15:31, David Genest <david.genest at ubisoft.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, so what if the dll is shared in a given environment (multiple extensions use it)?,  the shared dll should be copied to every package? Won't that cause multiple loads by the system?
>>
>> I honestly don't know in that case, sorry. You might get a better
>> answer on python-list for that, if no-one here can help.
>>
>> Presumably the usage is all within one distribution, otherwise the
>> question would have to be, which distribution ships the DLL? But that
>> question ends up leading onto the sort of discussion that starts
>> "well, I wouldn't design your system the way you have", which isn't
>> likely to be of much help to you :-(
>>
>> Sorry I can't offer any more help.
>
> Note that this is the external binary dependency problem that the
> scientific folks are currently using conda to address. It's basically
> the point where you cross the line from "language specific packaging
> system" to "multi-language cross-platform platform".
>
> That said, pip/wheel *may* get some capabilities along these lines in
> the future, it just isn't a high priority at this point.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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