compat-python, Zope...

[Toshio Kuratomi]

James Antill wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 13:02 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> 
>> First of all: I *will* package compat-python and Zope/Plone, because I 
>> need it at work. The only question is if Fedora/FESCo wants me to share 
>> my work with the Fedora community or not!
> 
>  From what I remember the previous person who wanted python in Fedora
> was also willing to create/maintain a compat-python24 package. But
> that's not the only problem.
> 
>> I can think of a Python 2.4 package that lives within the Zope tree to 
>> make it extra hard for others to use it by accident - but I don't think 
>> that this would be neat, seen from a FHS point of view.
> 
>  In some ways this might be doable, at least it has less pain points
> than packaging it "properly".
> 
>> I'm not a big fan of third party repositories. DOT. This would lead to 
>> an extra discussion...
>>
>> a) I maintain Zope/Plone (+ deps, eg. compat-python) in Fedora
>> b) I maintain it on my *private* company repo
>> c) NOTE!: I guess this will lead to packages a la 
>> compat-python24-{elementtree,feedparser,imaging,lxml,setuptools,psycopg} 
>> and maybe a whole bunch of others...
> 
>  C is the biggest problem, in that "someone" has to dup all the modules
> people need ... which also need to be kept in sync. ... and you need to
> make sure that python-foo doesn't pull in compat-python24-bar (and vice
> versa).
> 
> 
If C really is the biggest issue, we could look at what Debian is doing
in this area.  They have a package (I think it's called python-central
although that might be the old package and they have a newer one that
takes its place) which aids them in putting the python source modules in
a central store.  Then the modules are byte compiled for every python
that is installed on the system.  I'm not certain of how it works or
whether it is hacky in practice, just aware of its existence.

Is there anyone here with some Debian experience who can point us to a
better piece of information than what I just gave?


-Toshio

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