On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:25:23 +0100
Michael scherer <m...@zarb.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure about "twice the work": you don't need to track twice the
> > software releases (except for the interpreter itself), or twice the
> > upstream patches, etc.
> 
> Well, if we handle this like 2 separates languages, that mean 2 separates 
> rpms for
> each modules. Or we should be clever when generating 1 rpm to have the modules
> for both python 3 and python 2 generated ( Except when the developper did 
> choose
> to have separate tarball or code base )
> Having one rpm that produces 2 modules also mean that we will rebuild all 
> modules
> for python3 and all for python2, and I know that for example Buchan will not 
> like
> the extranous trafic it would generate.

Well AFAIK some other distros (not Debian and Ubuntu which have a more
complicated system) have separate packages per interpreter version
(python2.4-twisted, python2.6-twisted, etc.). But you can put all
versions in a single package too. I see no hard reason against that.

Regards

Antoine.


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