[Pythonmac-SIG] Upgrading /usr/bin/python to 2.3.1?

[Jack Jansen]

On 9-feb-04, at 20:25, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 1) Your bundle is broken, you forgot to link something and have more 
> undefined symbols than you should.. easy to figure out by importing it 
> from the interpreter or linking it with -framework Python instead of 
> -undefined dynamic_lookup.

This is the situation I'm worried about (and the same goes for Ronald, 
I think). You forget to link against a library at build time, and 
because you're using -undefined dynamic_lookup you are not getting any 
errors. Only at runtime will you suddenly get the error.

To answer the questions of Bill and Chris: the situation with Bob's 
mods is very similar to the situation on other unixen. However, I think 
that dynamic linking is one of the areas where both MacOS (8 and later) 
and even Windows have a much better design than Unix: the binding from 
undefined symbols to specific symbols defined in specific libraries is 
done at link time.

But, as they say, practicality beats purity...
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