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On 10/28/2010 04:50 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 02:02 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
>> I like the idea in general, but worry that some conflicts may not be
>> resolvable.  For instance, I don't know what goal drives system
>> packagers to specify UCS4 over the default UCS2, but I won't ever be
>> happy using a Python built that way for long-running, memory-intensive
>> applications, where I have measured the overhead of UCS4 and found it
>> unacceptable (e.g., a server app whose steady-state process size is
>> 800Mb under UCS4, compared to 600Mb under UCS2).
> 
> We're getting closer to being able to support this more easily upstream with
> all the work for exposing abi build flags in shared library and executable
> names.  But that won't help you much because it's Python 3. ;)

Doesn't matter to me anyway, as I don't have the issue about trying to
share hierarchies between multiple slightly-differing builds. ;)

> But I think to the extent that something like this could be backported into
> Python 2, it's probably the general approach to take.
> 
> All that aside, understanding specifically what a "clean Python" means is a
> great first step. ;)

Heh, "untar + CMMI into a non-system prefix" works for me. ;)


Tres.
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