Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/15/2014 1:21 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:

>> This is all quite aside from the fact that one should be able to
>> unpack a tarball and 'make xxx'.
>
> True, but in Debian Linux (so probably also Linux) one needs to
> install some zlib packages and some other stuff (https related IIRC)
> before compiling Python (at least with 3.3).

On windows, I can compile Python without the 3rd party dependencies 
installed. (They are also mostly installed by one .bat file.) The 
compiler will report errors for what is missing, and the corresponding 
imports (like 'import zlib') from the missing dlls will fail, but 
python.exe is built and otherwise runs fine. Are things different on 
*nix -- all or nothing?

In any case, once the dependencies are installed, they should still be 
there if one upgrades with patch release.

> So glad that pip (and setuptools too?) is part of the standard
> library in Python 3.4 (the zlib error became apparent when installing
> pip)

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Terry Jan Reedy