On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:07 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> I think Antoine makes a good point about ease of introspection when >> you have multiple versions in the same series installed, so I'd be >> fine with: >> - updating the PEP recommendation to say that either form of link is >> fine (with hard links marginally faster, but harder to introspect) >> - noting that python.org releases will consistently use symlinks for >> easier introspection via "ls -l" >> - updating Makefile.pre.in to ensure that we really do consistently use >> symlinks > > Sounds fine to me as well. When you update the PEP, please also update > the <TBD> mark with the actual issue number (or add it to the References).
Hmm, the PEP builder on python.org may need a kick. I added the tracker reference before starting this thread (http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/78b94f8648fa), but didn't comment on it since I expected the site to update in fairly short order. > For the patch, it seems that one open issue is OSX support, although > I'm unsure what exactly the issue is. I don't know either, but I'll take Ned's word for it if he says there's something more he needs to do to make it work in the OS X binaries. 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
