[lxml-dev] specifying lxml as a dependency?

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Ian Bicking wrote:
> Just as 'lxml'.  On Windows it'll pull the binary egg.  Maybe a Mac egg 
> is doable now? [...]
> they could do "STATIC_DEPS=true easy_install
> Twiddler" to build a static lxml on Macs

we're not there yet. Paul tried on his Mac, which uses macports. The current
trunk builds libxml2 and libxslt nicely and then builds lxml statically with
them, but next the module fails to import due to problems with missing symbols
in libiconv. My guess is that this is a problem with macports, but that needs
further investigation.

I keep being impressed by how broken a platform MacOS really is, and how
little a package distribution can do to fix it that lives outside of the
system itself.

Maybe other Mac users who do not use macports can report their experience with
the current trunk?


> (with the trunk, which itself 
> is a little harder to build, but hopefully there will be an easier 
> release before too long).

I was planning to release at least a 2.1.3 weeks ago, but there are still some
open problems and I need to find the time to work on them. But I think the
current trunk is good enough to become a real 2.2alpha1 soon.

Stefan