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  • Committer: James Westby
  • Date: 2007-08-14 17:01:10 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 2711.
  • Revision ID: jw+debian@jameswestby.net-20070814170110-penbufvxxj35e5l8
Windows and others do not require python-dev.

Thanks to Paul Moore for the updated text.

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bzr can optionally use compiled versions of some parts of the code
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for increased speed. When installing bzr you should have the python-dev
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headers installed that are required for compiling extension modules.
 
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for increased speed. When installing bzr you need the ability to
 
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build C extensions. Some Linux distributions package the necessary
 
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headers separately from the main Python package. This package is
 
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probably named something like python-dev or python-devel. FreeBSD,
 
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Windows, source-based Linux distributiions, and possibly other operating
 
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systems, have the required files installed by default.
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If you are installing bzr from a bzr branch rather than a release tarball,
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then you should also have the Pyrex package installed. This is not necessary