option to enable ncursesw in lang/python25

[Cheng-Lung Sung]

Hi,
    If user enable the ncursesw opt, how many py- ports will be broken?

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 05:56:24PM +0800, Rong-En Fan wrote:
> Currently, due to readline module links against libreadline.so
> which links libncurses.so. If python is compiled to use ncursesw,
> when importing readline module, it brings *both* ncurses and 
> ncursesw. This may cause problems, so that why we disable linking
> against ncursesw in files/patch-setup.py. 
> 
> However, this disables the ability to use ncursesw in some python
> scripts. Also, it seems that other distributions, like Debian, 
> actually links to ncursesw and I'm not aware of any issues with
> that. 
> 
> So, bottom line is we add an option to lang/python25, so that 
> for users want to use ncursesw, they can enable. In the future,
> if we solve the readline issue, we should make this as default.
> 
> Any suggestions?




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Alan Cheng-Lung Sung - clsung@
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