Re: Trying out a new way of packaging Python modules

2010-03-16 Thread Andrew Parker
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:53 PM, David Malcolm wrote: > I suspect we'd need an exclusion syntax (e.g. "this module isn't > buildable on PyPy", "this module isn't buildable on 2.7 with ppc"); you > can perhaps express this using things like: > > if [ $(rpm-pyconfig --eval @major_versi...@minor_ver

Re: Trying out a new way of packaging Python modules

2010-03-16 Thread Felix Schwarz
Hi David, I have to say I'm a bit sceptic about adding more runtimes to one distribution [1]. This will increase the maintenance burden and the general packaging complexity with no real benefit to me. Personally I (as a developer) find it easy enough to support Python 2.4-2.6 in one software (

Trying out a new way of packaging Python modules

2010-03-14 Thread David Malcolm
= BACKGROUND : Multiple python stacks = For Fedora 13 we've added a parallel-installable Python 3 stack, doubling the number of Python runtimes from one to two. I've ben mulling over things we could do for Python in Fedora 14. An idea I'd like to borrow from Debian is to add debug builds of the ru