Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:30:21PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> Or we could just "keep it simple" and deliver the pyc files as we are 
>> now.  All of these solutions sound technically neat, and at the same 
>> time overly complicated.
> 
> My understanding was that two different versions of Python trying to
> import the same .py's will want to create competing .pyc's.  That is a
> problem.  And so is the fact that /usr is generally not writable by
> users.  And then you need to get third parties to follow your lead.

Considering we deliver our python modules to separate paths for each 
version, I didn't consider that a problem that needed solving.

>> I'd rather just deal with the timestamp in the pyc files and be done 
>> with it.
> 
> Are you sure that won't cause other problems?

Is the cure worse than the disease?  Not as far as I know...

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker
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