Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-06-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:16:14PM +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote: Let me reexplain the situation i was talking about with a little graph: python-editobj (using python-support) | python2.3-soya (compiled) | python-ontopofsoya (using python-support) |

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Duck
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wow, what a constructive response. You've surely been on this list for years and must know all the changes that need to be made to Debian's python policy. Why didn't you reply to Bruce's original question with your own superior write-up of this

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 10 mai 2006 à 16:32 +0200, Marc Dequènes a écrit : I wonder how some situations (if existing) may be solved as long as we have unique non-versioned scripts-only packages and compiled modules cohabiting. When for eg python2.4-soya needs editobj, it just depends on python-editobj

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Duck
Coin Joss, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As Steve suggested, this can be solved by introducing a new variable named ${python:Provides} in dh_python, which will read the .version as well. Then, python-editobj will have a Provides: python2.3-editobj, python2.4-editobj and

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-01 Thread Duck
Coin, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any summaries, partial specs, top level descriptions, particularly good explanations of the stumbling blocks, etc., available for reading? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PythonRoadmap Is this Ubuntu roadmap of any concern for Debian ? Is doko not

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:40:50PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: On Sat April 29 2006 16:01, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:28:32PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Also, to make python-gtk2 support more than one version, we could only achieve that by providing the

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-04-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 30 avril 2006 à 01:48 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : Any summaries, partial specs, top level descriptions, particularly good explanations of the stumbling blocks, etc., available for reading? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PythonRoadmap As far as I know, this roadmap has never been

Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-04-29 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hello, Today I was playing with the idea of having gazpacho support multiple versions of Python. Nothing really forbids it, since it doesn't use anything that is specific to python2.4, for example. So I added gazpacho's module under python-support's control and made it not Depend on python = 2.3

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-04-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 29 avril 2006 à 18:28 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva a écrit : That means I'll have whatever python version is the default one, since python-gtk2 is supposed to depend on python2.3-gtk2, and will switch to python2.4-gtk2. So I'm guaranteeing gazpacho will work, but I'll also have the

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-04-29 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat April 29 2006 16:01, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:28:32PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Also, to make python-gtk2 support more than one version, we could only achieve that by providing the extensions in a single package or building them on install time. Has