[Python-Dev] SSL support in _socket

[Martin v. Loewis]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

> I thought that Modules/Setup is deprecated and replaced by the
> auto setup tests in setup.py ? 

Not at all. It is just used less frequently.

Personally, I think that is a pity. Python binary distributions, by
default, on Unix, should build as many extension libraries statically
into the interpreter as they can without dragging in too many
additional shared libraries. IOW, _socket should be compiled
statically into the interpreter, which you cannot do with distutils
(by nature).

The reason for linking them statically is efficiency: if used, the
interpreter won't have to locate them in sys.path, they don't need to
be compiled as PIC code, the dynamic linker does not need to bind that
many symbols, etc; if not used, they don't consume any additional
resources as they are demand-paged from the executable. Static linking
is also desirable for frozen applications.

For those reasons, I hope that Setup.dist continues to be maintained.


Regards,
Martin