Glenn Linderman wrote: > Alt. C... source-file-dir/__pyr_version__, each Python version with > different bytecode would have some sort of version string or magic > number that identifies it, and would look only in that directory for its > .pyc/.pyo files. I prefer C for 4 reasons: 1) easier to blow away one > version; 2) easier to see what that version has compiled; 3) most people > use only one or two versions, so directory proliferation is limited; 4) > even when there are 30 versions of Python, the subdirectories would > contain the same order-of-magnitude count of files as the source > directory for performance issues, if the file system has a knee in the > performance curve as some do.
I don't think this suggestion had come up before, but I like it. It also reduces the amount of filename adjustment needed in the individual cache directories. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
