Re: Python 2.6 - ctypes (specifically _ctypes) cannot be imported - Eclipse pydev integration broken as a result

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:04:02PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 15:55 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I've opted for using the union of previous and curr requirements but
>> that's not really too great either.  This is one of many places where
>> we could use a real package manager.
>
>And you're not the only one.  The problem with that is it can pull in
>old libraries which (if nothing else depends on them) are simply not
>necessary, and e.g. on my system, ImageBase real estate is at a premium.
>
>Here's a radical question: do we really need to allow for multiple
>versions of every package?  Other distros don't do this, why should we?

I think that the reason that other distros don't do this is that they do
more testing on their releases than we do - probably because they do
real releases, unlike Cygwin.

cgf

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