Re: [Swftools-common] [PATCH] Refactored environment variable overrides for setup.py

[Kai Lautaportti]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Matthias Kramm <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Kai Lautaportti
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Here's a patch against setup.py that unifies the environment variable
>> overrides in setup.py and adds some additional logic to it.
>>
>> The main changes are
>>
>>  - all variables prefixed with SWFTOOLS_ to avoid conflicts with
>> other variables
>>  - option to disable building of either Python module (gfx and/or SWF)
>
> I took a look a the patch. Question: Why do you need conditional
> compilation of gfx/SWF?
> Is that to prevent compile problems with one or the other, or because
> you only need one and
> want to compile faster?

We only use gfx ourselves and linking SWF against PIL (_imaging.so)
has turned out problematic on OSX. By default the PIL .so libraries
are created as bundles on OSX which cannot be linked against.

I was able to manually hack PIL so that the libs are built using
-dynamiclib instead of -bundle which allowed the linking but in our
case it is far easier to just disable SWF alltogether. Also, I recall
hearing that you were thinking about deprecating the SWF module.. is
that correct?

cheers,
Kai

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