-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/2010 04:50 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 28, 2010, at 02:02 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: > >> I like the idea in general, but worry that some conflicts may not be >> resolvable. For instance, I don't know what goal drives system >> packagers to specify UCS4 over the default UCS2, but I won't ever be >> happy using a Python built that way for long-running, memory-intensive >> applications, where I have measured the overhead of UCS4 and found it >> unacceptable (e.g., a server app whose steady-state process size is >> 800Mb under UCS4, compared to 600Mb under UCS2). > > We're getting closer to being able to support this more easily upstream with > all the work for exposing abi build flags in shared library and executable > names. But that won't help you much because it's Python 3. ;)
Doesn't matter to me anyway, as I don't have the issue about trying to share hierarchies between multiple slightly-differing builds. ;) > But I think to the extent that something like this could be backported into > Python 2, it's probably the general approach to take. > > All that aside, understanding specifically what a "clean Python" means is a > great first step. ;) Heh, "untar + CMMI into a non-system prefix" works for me. ;) Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzJ7q0ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4T3QCggKh9FSRDXdVqP3l6xmVthLaJ YOwAn3CSP3oF0tL3c7oweK3Ecz8QDg8j =ZNIn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
