Bytecode compilation

2002-07-25 Thread Martin Sjögren
Hello. I've read the draft python policy, and my packages follow it. There is, however, something that I think is missing. What's the policy on byte-compilation? Should there be both .pyc and .pyo files? Should the files be compiled in the postinst script or can they be distributed with the

Re: Bytecode compilation

2002-07-25 Thread Alexandre
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:05:27PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: Hello. I've read the draft python policy, and my packages follow it. There is, however, something that I think is missing. What's the policy on byte-compilation? Should there be both .pyc and .pyo files? Should the files be

Re: Bytecode compilation

2002-07-25 Thread Florent Rougon
Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely the right way to handle this is using debconf in the main python packages, and subsequently any packages check this to see if python scripts should be compiled or not. Or have I missed anything? You are talking about (compiling the .py in postinst |

Re: Bytecode compilation

2002-07-25 Thread Dave Swegen
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:41:09PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely the right way to handle this is using debconf in the main python packages, and subsequently any packages check this to see if python scripts should be compiled or not. Or have I

python2.2 for sarge?

2002-07-25 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Sorry, I've not checked for existing threads on this topic... will Sarge use Python2.2 by any chance? Once this is decided, the sooner it is made official, the sooner packages will start updating, and the faster we will get a stable Sarge... Specifically, I am wondering if I should go to the

Re: python2.2 for sarge?

2002-07-25 Thread Matthias Klose
Federico Di Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Il gio, 2002-07-25 alle 16:04, Hugo van der Merwe ha scritto: Sorry, I've not checked for existing threads on this topic... will Sarge use Python2.2 by any chance? Once this is decided, the sooner it is made official, the sooner packages will start

Re: Bytecode compilation

2002-07-25 Thread Florent Rougon
Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not having really followed the discussion, and being faaar too bone-idle to actually look it up in the archives, this is my view on it: Shipping pre-compiled really isn't an option, as the size increase would be unacceptable - not only from a debian

Re: python2.2 for sarge?

2002-07-25 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jul 25, Matthias Klose wrote: My current plan is: - upload python2.3 packages soon (when 2.3alpha1 is released) - remove python1.5 from unstable - adopt python-central for 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3, hopefully with the help of the author, hint, hint - upload python2.3 beta to unstable

Re: python2.2 for sarge?

2002-07-25 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 03:28:59PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Jul 25, Matthias Klose wrote: My current plan is: - upload python2.3 packages soon (when 2.3alpha1 is released) - remove python1.5 from unstable - adopt python-central for 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3, hopefully with the