On Qua, 2007-03-14 at 13:18 +0200, Fernando Herrera wrote: > On 3/14/07, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:52 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > If a program works correctly with Python 2.4, is there > > > actually a danger of it not working correctly with 2.5? > > > That sounds broken. > > > > Python 2.4 and 2.5 install in parallel so already-built applications > > will not be broken. > > In the past, when we included python 2.4 in the jubuild bootstrap > module I had lot of problems when building/running python programs on > FC. I think that different compilation options resulted in binary > incompatible python modules (some UCS size or something like that) > > 1) when running my jhbuild session, trying to run a system python > program like yum didn't work, because it was using python from jhbuild > and tried to load a module (.so) from system python, that where > incompatible > > 2) For building some apps under my jhbuild environements I had to > compile a lot of external python modules to make the app build, > because python from jhbuild refused to use my system dir modules. Some > of them were pyrex, twisted, numeric, etc... > > So, questions: > a) Is the binary incompatibility depending on configure options stills > present?
Yes, but that has nothing to do with different python versions, just different python builds. > b) if yes, could we build python 2.5 in jhbuild autodetecting and > matching system python configuration? It could be done; just remove python from the bootstrap modules (and let people remove any /opt/gnome-devel/bin/python* that they have, or whatever). But then people have to define PYTHONPATH correctly. Or let "jhbuild shell/run" do it.. Personally I prefer to have a custom built python, for better debugging. But I would understand if people want to use the system python instead. In fact, using the system python by default would allow GNOME to be tested with multiple Python versions at the same time; I think it may be a very good idea just because of that... -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
