On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Daniel Isenmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:56:02 -0500 > Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Eric Bélanger >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Aaron Griffin >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Daniel Isenmann >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:08:33 -0500 >> >>> Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Daniel Isenmann >> >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:45:20 -0400 >> >>>> > Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> > >> >>>> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Travis Willard >> >>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> >> >> As I can see now, these are .pyo files. Are they generate >> >>>> >> >> at runtime or something like that? They are not in the >> >>>> >> >> package. >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > .pyo files are, I believe, "optimized" python files >> >>>> >> > generated during runtime. >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> I beleiie so too. I think there was a thread about how to >> >>>> >> deal with these files. I think the info is in a wiki article >> >>>> >> about python packaging guidelines. The other remaining file >> >>>> >> is wicd.log wich is generated at runtime too. >> >>>> > >> >>>> > I have nothing found about those files. The article about >> >>>> > python package guidelines is very short. Nothing special about >> >>>> > it. >> >>>> > >> >>>> > The log file is acceptable, but the pyo files are annyoing. >> >>>> >> >>>> I imagine that this only happens with apps run as root (or have >> >>>> write permissions to their install dir). >> >>>> >> >>>> I think the best thing, for the time being, is to do this in a >> >>>> pre_remove (so you have access to pacman -Ql at that time) and do >> >>>> something like: >> >>>> >> >>>> PKGNAME=wicd >> >>>> pre_remove () { >> >>>> for pyo in $(pacman -Qql $PKGNAME | grep \.py$ | sed >> >>>> 's|.py$|.pyo|g'); do if [ -f "$pyo" ]; then >> >>>> rm "$pyo" >> >>>> fi >> >>>> done >> >>>> } >> >>> >> >>> Ok, I will do it this way, but shouldn't we have a better >> >>> solution for this for the future? >> >> >> >> Well, the only sane way to do it would be to make sure pacman >> >> tracks the .pyo files by generating them as part of the package >> >> creation process, but I don't even know if that's possible >> >> >> > >> > it's possible. Just create empty files with the same name with >> > 'touch' in the build function. > > But then you have to track the files every rebuild, if they really > exists or not. > >> Looks like python -O py_compile.py foo.py will do this. And it looks >> like setuptools has an --optimize argument. I'd suggest trying this >> >> python setup.py install --optimize=1 ...other args... > > This is the correct parameter: > > --optimize (-O) > also compile with optimization: -O1 for "python -O", -O2 for "python > -OO", and -O0 to disable [default: -O0] > > But as the parameter mentioned, it is disabled by > default. :(
Yeah, we're just going to have to do that when we run setup.py scripts, in order to track the .pyo files.

