Message 148721 - Python tracker

Message148721

Author	skrah
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, brian.curtin, casevh, ced, eric.smith, eric.snow, jjconti, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, skrah, vstinner
Date	2011-12-01.13:38:13
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[Amaury] > Overall, I think that the "mpd" C library should be better separated from the > _decimal module (a bit like _ctypes, with the libffi library): its own configure > & makefile, its own test suite... which are not necessarily related to Python. Except for its own directory libmpdec has all that (See LIBTEST.txt). Library tests are in the tests/ directory, python tests in the python/ directory. Are you suggesting to build a static library and then use that to build the module? I remember this didn't work on Windows (not to mention AIX and such).

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[Amaury]
> Overall, I think that the "mpd" C library should be better separated from the
> _decimal module (a bit like _ctypes, with the libffi library): its own configure
> & makefile, its own test suite... which are not necessarily related to Python.

Except for its own directory libmpdec has all that (See LIBTEST.txt). Library
tests are in the tests/ directory, python tests in the python/ directory.

Are you suggesting to build a static library and then use that to build
the module? I remember this didn't work on Windows (not to mention AIX and such).

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