On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:22:58AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> >> It occurs to me that it would be nice if we made clean Python >> packages available for some of the popular Unix platforms. I'm not >> sure what would be involved in doing that, from a distribution point >> of view. >> > If you're talking about a python that is carried by the OS in their package > sets, updatable using the OS tools, etc
That would be great. It might be enough to post pre-built packages. <shug> > catch me on IRC (abadger1999 on > irc.freenode.net) and we could talk about this. Off the top of my head, > I think it would be possible with a few compromises but not easy in the > decision department. Which makes it unattractive. I'm really not interested in getting embroiled in a political process. BTW, I really don't care about certain types of innovation (e.g. file locations, wide unicode) as long as I as a developer don't feel them. It occurs to me that it would be useful if there was a definition of a standard Python that provided a baseline that developers could count on. Today, the closest thing to a standard is the Python distribution. I suppose that doesn't have to be the standard. Of course, defining such a standard might be really painful, especially via email. It might be a good PyCon discussion/sprint topic. > The biggest issue I see is that it wouldn't be possible to fix bugs in > these packages. Perhaps it would be possible to compromise and fix bugs but > only when the patches are backports from the upstream repository I'm not sure what you mean. Bugs are fixed via Python distributions. Is this not fast enough? > but.... we > presently do that in Fedora for firefox/xulrunner/thunderbird because of > mozilla's trademark agreement and it causes no end of conflicts between > contributors. I assume that wouldn't be a problem for Python, assuming I have a clue what that is. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
