[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] python + osso_browser does work.

[From: Osvaldo Santana]

On 12/12/06, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:46:10AM -0300, Luciano Miguel Wolf wrote:
> > ext Marius Gedminas wrote:
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> > Hi Marius and developers,
> >
> > Its possible to add support to readline but this will take 600k (5% of
> > total package size). The new dependencies should be downloaded from sdk
> > repositories. What do you think?
>
> Wow.  I did not expect that.
>
> Would it be possible to package readline.so separately so that
> Python developers can apt-get install python-readline, while regular
> users can save half a meg?

It's possible to make another package with the readline.so module, but
the Python interactive mode will not use it.

To enable the readline in Python interactive mode we need to link the
interpreter itself against libreadline/libncurses.

Thanks,
Osvaldo

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