Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:02:09 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Markus Dolze <bsdfan@nurfuerspam.de> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: glib's python dependency Message-ID: <1213552929.43949.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <4854EA96.8050407@nurfuerspam.de> References: <4854EA96.8050407@nurfuerspam.de>
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--=-gHs55b78FmyaUyiFgvzl Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 12:10 +0200, Markus Dolze wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I am using 'mc' which requires 'glib' which itself has a dependency on=20 > Python. From the changelog I found that gtester-report is using Python.=20 > After browsing the sources I am still unsure how much of Python is used=20 > elsewhere in glib (e.g. regular expressions). >=20 > What is Python used for in glib? I would like to get rid of this=20 > dependency, but am not sure how much will break if I do so. Python is a hard requirement of glib. It is required by the installed script gtester-report (as you have found). If you feel that the dependency should be optional, open a bug with the glib authors, and have them change the code to make it so. If Python was removed now, it would break this script, and any consumer of it. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-gHs55b78FmyaUyiFgvzl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkhVWSAACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4eClgCfSoz0hDPcntBMoET8I0nq63SG ZkwAn0uAaE83jg7VGo3dDEOCBVS2tZYM =sYzP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-gHs55b78FmyaUyiFgvzl--
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