[Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy

Mon Jan 17 09:21:56 CET 2011

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 06:15:52PM +0100, philippe makowski wrote:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> I though that I can find more time to work on this week end, but
+> unfortunately it was not the case.
+> 
+> The Mandriva doc is really not a good starter
+> (http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Python_packaging_policy)
+
+That's just a draft, but as the one that wrote the draft, could I
+know what is wrong with what was written so far ?
+
+> so I propose to use the Fedora one
+> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python) with some cleaning.
+> 
+> Can we provide  same macros as in In Fedora 13 and greater ?
+> 
+> Do you see any major problem with the Fedora policy ?
+
+First they make plan for having more than one version of python, something
+that I always told I will not do since no one stepped to do much to help
+on the transition. In short, as long the python team will in practice be only me
+( and in practice, I mean "people who effectivly commit" ), we will have only 1 supported
+version of the stack. 
+( I consider python 3 to be a different language, because of the 
+source level incompatibility ).
+ 
+There is also the issue on bytecompilation ( https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50484 ).
+I have exposed there the various problem, and apart from explaining
+that the solution I chosed was not better than the other, no one gave a compeling
+argument into one or the others alternatives.
+
+Finally, a vast part of the policy is handling 2to3, a topic that we didn't discuss 
+at all, and I would not be confortable to adopt it without first looking at it and
+discussing it.
+
+Not to mention that our policy draft speak of thing they do not include
+( like naming policy, for a start ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+