[Python-Dev] Adding Asian codecs to the core

Paul Prescod paulp@ActiveState.com
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:19:08 -0700


"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> What would be the threshold for doing so ?
> 
> Tamito is actively working on reducing the table sizes of the the
> codecs and after what I have seen you do on these sort of tables I
> am pretty sure Tamito can turn these tables into shared libs which are
> smaller than 200k.

Don't forget Chinese (Taiwan and mainland) and Korean!

I guess I don't see the big deal in making them separate downloads. We
can use distutils to make them easy to install .exe's for Reference
Python and PPM for ActivePython.

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