Hi Armin (2012.07.31_16:26:50_+0200) > My point of view is that this goes in the same pack of > incompatibilities introduced by some distributions as splitting the > install path (which we recommend to install as one block in > /opt/pypy-1.9).
Most distros won't use /opt. We tend to follow the FHS. /opt makes a lot of sense for the binary pypy you distribute. Just as it makes sense for the binary junk that Adobe et al. distribute. > It may be useful to do that according to some distribution-specific > rules, but either you do it as a distribution hack and we don't care > about it, or you try to come here and discuss more in details the > problems that you have and how we could solve it together. Having the same installation layout on all distros would be fantastic. Practically, that gets non-trivial, though. Debian has the weird dist-packages layout for cpython, that I copied for pypy, but that approach hasn't been documented in upstream cpython or adopted by any other distributions. > As far as I know the __pycache__ is another example of > distribution-specific hack that we were was not aware of. I did my best to make you all aware of it, and get some feedback. I mentioned the PEP3147 support here [0], and a zillion times on IRC. But I have no problem having that conversation now that people seem to be aware of it :) [0]: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2012-January/009104.html > I don't think we are by principle necessarily completely opposed to it: > whereas it still looks like a good idea to stick to CPython's > behavior, failing that, if there are good reasons, the next best > solution is probably to come with something that we can integrate into > the "real" pypy, rather than keep on your own. Yup, that's the opinion I felt before. And the approach I'm taking. But the patch is fairly gnarly due to test-suite changes, so I haven't forwarded it up to you. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ H: +27 21 461 1230 C: +27 72 419 8559 _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
