[Patches] [ python-Patches-400938 ] [Draft] libpython as shared library (.so) on Linux

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Patches item #400938, was updated on 2000-07-19 13:55
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Open
Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Gregor Hoffleit (flight)
Assigned to: Neil Schemenauer (nascheme)
Summary: [Draft] libpython as shared library (.so) on Linux

Initial Comment:
 

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>Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-06-12 09:51

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Reopening -- this keeps being requested.  Now we're just
waiting for someone to produce a working patch.

Or is there one already?

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Comment By: Neil Schemenauer (nascheme)
Date: 2001-03-21 15:59

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We're going to have to create a new patch to do this.  This
one is
way too out of date.  Maybe for 2.2.

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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-01-19 14:46

Message:
I'm reassigning this to Neil.

Neil, can you see if you can integrate this into your flat Makefile?

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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-01-17 15:09

Message:
Andrew, I'm tentatively reassigning this to you, since you're taking charge of the build process at the moment (setup.py).

I suspect that the patch no longer works as is -- would it make sense to mark it postponed and get the author to submit a new version before we release 2.1a1?


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2001-01-17 14:46

Message:
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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Comment By: Moshe Zadka (moshez)
Date: 2000-11-01 03:32

Message:
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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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2000-10-26 14:13

Message:
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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Comment By: Jeremy Hylton (jhylton)
Date: 2000-08-23 09:26

Message:
In the absence of anyone arguing for inclusion of this patch and a one-week idle period, it is postponed.

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Comment By: Moshe Zadka (moshez)
Date: 2000-08-16 00:40

Message:
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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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2000-08-15 10:52

Message:
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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Comment By: Gregor Hoffleit (flight)
Date: 2000-07-19 14:10

Message:
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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