Re: [igraph] igraph Python: ImportError: DLL load failed

[Gabor Csardi]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:48:21PM +0100, Tamas Nepusz wrote:
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> 1. These DLLs get installed in the same directory where the files of  
> the package will be. (Python root\Lib\site-packages\igraph). This can  
> be considered an advantage or a disadvantage as well: clearly we're  
> wasting space, but we can be sure that the required libraries are  
> installed along with the package. Alternatively, we could try to infer  
> the full path of the system32 subdirectory somehow and install our  
> DLLs there, risking that we're overwriting a previous version of  
> libxml2.

Installing into a system directory is definitely not a good solution.

> 2. The two DLLs are roughly 2 Mbytes, therefore effectively doubling  
> the size of the package.

That's probably too much. But, people who want to run igraph need to
install them anyway. In general i would be ready to sacrifice 2 Mb 
of disk space waste in favour of easy installation. But the decision 
is yours.

G.

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