From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6003 invoked by alias); 25 Feb 2019 12:43:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 5335 invoked by uid 89); 25 Feb 2019 12:43:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sk:python, sk:python-, H*r:2224, sk:python3 X-HELO: mail-oi1-f178.google.com Received: from mail-oi1-f178.google.com (HELO mail-oi1-f178.google.com) (209.85.167.178) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:43:13 +0000 Received: by mail-oi1-f178.google.com with SMTP id z14so7145520oid.0 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2019 04:43:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:date:from:references:subject:to:user-agent; bh=s81Qn141CjNaA47oxqfxYLW5XzLc206gDHyimc8pwBk=; b=cJTPKO63vush4uWfYlR3tgNrHH+OM/mqoYYul+2DYWFHYt9hjvNjzE1TTkdtpFfb0I BcXCh1msKjQf4c/OB6wK3Zx145b+8OPimklDo+KZ6iZPRnXJdXMCSGJxaUz1lqrx3cFf pSUCYBykZqYl1uVrrlcmZCUZEL/LGhOxR8wxE3mW4wXnRrnulXJkf/7RIUdhtTnApUbM 5yN020gJfnVQEcGO5UigNSjo+stIM0f8lwzquWrYBlZSYBbFX96s0mRYVO4/8NmaF0h5 qe87n1xcG7cduRcqVCT4jcnZWK4BixJNQRsVxqk9Bzjd5CLWA3N+KuqkmZn6w9YBtlov kc2Q== Return-Path: Received: from 0nO ([2605:6000:9fc0:56:2199:655:be99:2224]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t20sm567049oih.0.2019.02.25.04.43.10 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 25 Feb 2019 04:43:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5c73e2de.1c69fb81.51805.32cd@mx.google.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 13:54:00 -0000 From: Steven Penny References: Subject: Re: Python extraneous dependencies To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8; format=flowed User-Agent: Tryst/2.8.0 (cup.github.io/umber/tryst) X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00414.txt.bz2 On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:42:36, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 16:29 -0800, Steven Penny wrote: >> I noticed that "python36" requires "binutils". > > This is needed for ctypes.util.find_library(). FWIW, on Linux, not > only binutils is used, but also gcc. > >> Further, I noticed this dependency chain: >> >> python36 > libuuid-devel > pkg-config > libglib2.0_0 > > Until 3.7, the uuid stdlib module loads libuuid via ctypes, hence the > dependency. In 3.7, there is a compiled binding, and so the -devel > dependency was dropped. Also, pkgconf will soon be providing and > replacing pkg-config, which will cause the glib2.0 dependency to be > dropped. thanks. i was interested further in comparison so i took this file: https://python.org/ftp/python/3.6.8/python-3.6.8-embed-amd64.zip then use tar for fair comparison: tar -a -c -f python-3.6.8-embed-amd64.tar.xz python-3.6.8-embed-amd64 result: $ wc -c python-3.6.8-embed-amd64.tar.xz 5630160 python-3.6.8-embed-amd64.tar.xz compare this with cygwin version: $ wc -c python36-3.6.8-1.tar.xz 5746648 python36-3.6.8-1.tar.xz and that doesnt include the other packages i previously discussed. so it almost makes more sense to not even use the cygwin version? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple