2009-10-09 00:27:41 Tarek Ziadé napisał(a): > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.bad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:07:13PM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar > > Arahesis wrote: > >> 2009-10-04 23:52:25 Sridhar Ratnakumar napisał(a): > >> > On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > The other way would be to use Distribute instead of Setuptools for > >> > > what the packaging system is calling "setuptools". That's pretty > >> > > much what is happening in Gentoo (arch) and UHU-Linux (dev), > >> > > right now > >> > > >> > Interesting. Gentoo uses distribute but retains the name 'setuptools'? > >> > >> It's because Distribute 0.6.* installs setuptools.* modules. > >> Distribute 0.7.* will be under name dev-python/distribute. > >> > > I started thinking about what it might take to do this for Fedora as well. > > There's a number of worries I have but it sounds attractive because of the > > increased maintainence support from distribute's upstream. > > > > An alternative I thought of would be for us to ship both distribute-0.6 and > > distribute-0.7 (when it arrives) and parallel install them. Then we can > > patch the setuptools using packages we maintain to check first for the 0.6 > > distribute and fall back on setuptools if it's not found. That would > > hopefully get a bunch of upstreams onto a better supported code base. > > > > My question is: will Distribute have a parallel installation plan? For > > instance, renaming the module provided by 0.7 distribute2? If so, this > > makes a lot of sense. If not, it's the ability of gentoo to reuse the > > setuptools name that makes parallel installation of distribute-0.6 and > > distribute-0.7 easier. > > We are not sure yet, but when 0.7 will be ready we have two choices: > > 1- we ship 0.7 under a new name - e.g. like "distribute2" > 2- we ship a fat 0.7 with the old 0.6 packages and modules included.
I suggest to ship 0.7 under name "distribute" and allow parallel installation of 0.6 and 0.7. E.g. Python 2.5 and 2.6 can be installed parallelly. -- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
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