On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:07, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > We have other instances of this (e.g. the Objects/typeslots.inc file > > is generated and checked in), but in the case of importlib, we have > > to use the ./python binary for freezing to avoid bytecode > > incompatibilities, which obviously is a problem if ./python isn't > > built yet. > > As for dependencies on byte code: we could consider using Cython instead > of freeze (not sure whether Cython would build the bootstrap correctly; > it may need to be fixed first). With that, we would get semi-readable > source code, which should also play more nicely with hg diffs. On the > down side, we would depend on Cython for evolving . > We could also just store the raw source code and use that if we are all willing to pay the performance cost of parsing and compiling the code at every startup. > > As for the timestamp issue: I think we should add a target "make touch" > or some such which checks whether the respective files are unmodified > in the local clone, and if so, arranges to touch generated files that > are older than their sources. If this is done by a plain shell script, > one could also make this a post-update Mercurial hook. > So like execute hg diff on the dependent files and if nothing changed then touch the auto-generated file w/ 'touch' to prevent future attempts to execute the target? -Brett > > Regards, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > 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/brett%40python.org >
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