[IronPython] Standard Library Inclusion - C Extension Modules

[Michael Foord]

Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
> I had a brief discussion about this with Harry and want to add a few things.
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org> wrote:
>   
>> Seo's example is a simpler one.  Harry is working on is getting legal
>> approval for accepting community contributions into the modules.  Once
>> that's done (no ETA, I'm afraid), Seo would sign a contributor
>> agreement and we could include his pyexpat compatibility shim.
>>     
>
> There's another approach that would allow us to accept this code
> today.  If Seo contributes this back to the PSF, we can pick it up
> from the CPython codebase.  The change could be implemented by
> modifying test\test_pyexpat.py and xml\parsers\expat.py and using "if
> sys.platform == 'cli'" as needed.  I don't know how open the PSF will
> be to this, but we intend to make similar submissions once *that*
> particular project makes it through legal...
>
>   
>> The sqlite example is more complicated for two reasons:
>> 1) There wouldn't be any point in doing it unless we could distribute
>> the referenced third-party project as well.  This probably gives Harry
>> the opportunity for a whole new round of quality time with lawyers.
>>     
>
>   

Actually - there is *no* requirement for you to distribute the third 
party code. That wouldn't make the compatibility layer pointless, it 
would still be extremely useful.

Michael

> The chances of this happening are extremely small.  If someone wants
> to contribute _sqlite code that they wrote themselves, we'll be happy
> to take it when we're ready for contributions.  But accepting
> third-party code into the distribution is a different can of worms
> that we're not interested in tackling at this time.
>
> There's nothing to prevent this from being implemented as an external
> community project, though.
>
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