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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy</H1>
+ <B>Antoine Pitrou</B>
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+ <I>Wed Jan 19 02:07:18 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:55:40 +0100
+Michael scherer &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; The solution of generating bytecode at install time looks fine. I am
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; not an RPM specialist though, but if you have non-RPM specific questions
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; feel free to ask them, I'd be glad to answer.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Well, that's not satisfying from a rpm pov, unfortunately.
+</I>
+Can you explain why it isn't? I'm sure other packages generate stuff at
+install-time, right? Also, the list of files is well-known (it's
+everything named &quot;*.py&quot; that goes somewhere inside /usr/lib/pythonXXX/).
+
+&gt;<i> &gt; What is the issue with &quot;handling 2to3&quot;? It's a developer tool and
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; certainly shouldn't be invoked at install time if that's what you are
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; asking. Generally, I don't think you (as a packager) have to invoke
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 2to3 manually at all. If 2to3 is part of the packaged software's build
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; process, then their setup.py will probably invoke it automatically with
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; the right options.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I as more speaking of the transition from pyton 2 to python 3. I think the easiest
+</I>&gt;<i> on a policy point of view is to handle this like 2 separate languages, but that mean twice the work.
+</I>&gt;<i> And so we should at least try to do better ( not sure that we can, of course ).
+</I>
+Handling them as two separate languages looks indeed like the right
+thing to do, IMO. In any case, as I said, you shouldn't be the one
+wondering about 2to3. Upstream developers do, if that's the conversion
+method they chose for their project.
+
+I'm not sure about &quot;twice the work&quot;: you don't need to track twice the
+software releases (except for the interpreter itself), or twice the
+upstream patches, etc.
+
+Regards
+
+Antoine.
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