[Python-Dev] Optionally using GMP to implement long if available

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Tue Nov 4 13:00:03 CET 2008


    >> OTOH, it should be no big deal to drop a zip archive of the GMP
    >> sources which correspond to the code bound into the DLL.

    Martin> How would end users then extract the sources from the DLL? How
    Martin> would they learn that they even have them in the first place?

I think you missed an implied comma in my statement.  I meant:

    1. distribute pythonxy.dll which binds to GMP.
    2. distribute a gmpmn.zip which contains the source for the version used
       in #1.

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