[Patches] [Patch #100938] [Draft] libpython as shared library (.so) on Linux

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Patch #100938 has been updated. 

Project: python
Category: None
Status: Open
Submitted by: flight
Assigned to : jhylton
Summary: [Draft] libpython as shared library (.so) on Linux

Follow-Ups:

Date: 2001-Jan-17 14:46
By: nobody

Comment:
Getting this patch into the next version of Python would be "A Good
Thing"(tm) in my opinion.  We use libpython as a .so at ILM and end up
having to make changes like this by hand every time we get a new version...
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Date: 2000-Jul-19 14:10
By: flight

Comment:
This is what it used in product to build libpython as shared library(.so)
for Debian.

Note: This patch is not ready for inclusion in the upstream Python
distribution. Anyway, I think this might be a start. The Python 1.5
executable in Debian GNU/Linux is built against a shared libpython1.5.so
since April 1999, and I haven't yet heard about any problems.

Using a shared library should have an advantage if you're running multiple
instances of Python (be it standalone interpreter or embedded
applications).

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Date: 2000-Aug-15 10:52
By: tim_one

Comment:
Assigned to Barry because he's a Linux weenie.  Barry, if you think there's
something here that should go into 2.0, please pursue it now, else change
the status to Postponed.
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Date: 2000-Aug-16 00:40
By: moshez

Comment:
I suggest we postpone it. It isn't really complete (only works on real
distributions <wink>), and the complete solution should work on all unices.
If Tcl/Perl can do it, there is no reason Python can't -- and a half
hearted solution isn't that good. flight, you should use this
for the Python in woody in the mean time -- I doubt woody
will be stable before Python 2.1 comes out, so 2.1 sounds
like a good timeframe to do it.
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Date: 2000-Aug-23 09:26
By: jhylton

Comment:
In the absence of anyone arguing for inclusion of this patch and a one-week
idle period, it is postponed.
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Date: 2000-Oct-26 14:13
By: gvanrossum

Comment:
Let's give this to Jeremy instead, because he seems to know more about
build issues. Jeremy, it would be good to look into getting this to work
with your RPM suite. Flight's argument (has been used without complaints in
Debian Python 1.5.2 since 1999) is good.
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Date: 2000-Nov-01 03:32
By: moshez

Comment:
I've had a look at the patch, and it seems it has
two orthogonal parts. One is adding the infrastructure
for compiling another version for the Python library, which can be more or
less integrated as-is, and one is hard-coding the particular way, in Linux,
of building shared objects. Since we discover how to build shared objects
in the configure script anyway (otherwise we could not have built modules
as shared objects), we should embed that information there, not the Linux
flags.
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