[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....



On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:14:23PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 04:59:56PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > 
> > um... yeah, well it is rather insulting to the developer (not a
> > comment on my part as to whether its an ugly hack or not), so I'm not
> > surprised he's not answering you.... 
> > 
> > maybe something more along the lines of "dear dev, it appears that to
> > get foo running, I need bar to be updated to run on amd64. Here is why
> > it doesn't run <instert Roberto's demo sans "ugly hack">. Can you be
> > of assistance?" You know, that old ants-honey thing ;-)
> > 
> My "ugly hack" comment was in reference to the dl module itself.  I
> don't blame someone for using it since it is there.  However, using the
> dl module is sort of anti-Python, since you lose the ability to work
> with objects in the foreign function.

as I said, no commentary on the use of "ugly hack" just on the past
about it being passed on upstream... heh heh

A

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: