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diff --git a/lang/python/docs/dita/howto/part02/no-pypi.dita b/lang/python/docs/dita/howto/part02/no-pypi.dita new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8f2b6013 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/python/docs/dita/howto/part02/no-pypi.dita @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE dita PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Composite//EN" "ditabase.dtd"> +<dita> + <topic id="topic_mss_p2y_5db"> + <title>No PyPI</title> + <body> + <p>Most third-party Python packages and modules are available and distributed through + the Python Package Installer, known as PyPI.</p> + <p>Due to the nature of what these bindings are and how they work, it is infeasible to install + the GPGME Python bindings in the same way.</p> + <p>This is because the bindings use SWIG to dynamically generate C bindings against + <codeph>gpgme.h</codeph> and <codeph>gpgme.h</codeph> is generated from + <codeph>gpgme.h.in</codeph> at compile time when GPGME is built from source. Thus to + include a package in PyPI which actually built correctly would require either statically + built libraries for every architecture bundled with it or a full implementation of C for + each architecture.</p> + </body> + </topic> +</dita> |