Python Binding for Windows Version 2.5

[John Ralls]

On Jun 13, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2013, 17:27:38 schrieb Rand Batchelder:
>> The python bindings were never enabled for the windows binaries previously.
>> 
>> Will the python bindings be enabled for the windows binaries in ver 2.5 ?
> 
> No, they will not.
> 
> The previous answer by David T. says it all:
> 
>> My understanding about why the Windows and Mac builds skip installing
>> Python is that these OSes do not consistently provide Python to users.
>> Including it by default in GnuCash for these platforms would require
>> GnuCash to include Python in the distribution, with concomitant file size
>> problems and requiring GnuCash to keep an updated Python.
> 
> in other words, the gnucash windows binary with its current 70MB would have to 
> grow even more to contain one complete python binary (and not only its gnucash 
> bindings) with the correct version that fits the version that is used by the 
> build server to build the python gnucash bindings. Current python installers 
> come at 20MB size. We won't do that.
> 
> But feel free to provide a build script and/or a separate binary package that 
> adds the bindings to an existing gnucash package...

There's got to be a way around that. Pybsddb [1] makes a module that connects multiple versions of 
Berkeley DB  with any version of Python after 2.3.  What are they doing differently from us?

Regards,
John Ralls



[1] http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm