On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:31 AM, David Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 08:43 +0100, Steve Traylen wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Kevin Fenzi <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:40:05 -0500 >> > David Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> I'm interested in maintaining a build of python 2.6 for EPEL5, >> >> parallel-installable with the system "python" (2.4 in EL5, which I >> >> comaintain within RHEL). >> > >> > ...snip... >> > >> >> Would people find this useful to have in EPEL5? >> > >> > I personally would. We have several clients here that use a home grown >> > spec/rpm for this, and it would be great to have something like this in >> > the community. ;) >> Agreed. >> > Whats the stance on modules for this python? >> > Similar to what we do for python3 in fedora? or forbidden? >> >> Certainly there is a follow up need for modules for this to be useful >> to the community. So copying python3 stance in Fedora makes sense. > > Re modules: very good point. > > It's non-trivial to share modules directly between different minor > versions of python [1] - so it's simplest and safest to package up the > modules as "python26-foo" RPMs, rather than risk breaking the "system" > python stack. > > > What modules would people most want/need? > > The ones that immediately spring to my mind are: > > - a version of setuptools, since this needed by many builds; I would > choose the Distribute fork of setuptools, so probably I'd do a > python26-distribute-0.6.10.el5 > > - python26-nose.el5 (for tests, so that %check sections within builds > can be more robust) > > - postgres and mysql connectivity, for the versions of those dbs > within EL5 > > Are my instincts on the above correct; are those the ones that would be > most needed?
I would expect that as soon as the dam breaks.. lots of modules would be needed. The best thing here is to make it scalable with a howto on "make your python package be python26-xxx compatible" -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
