Hi Ronny (2012.07.31_17:12:15_+0200) > i would dare to say that Distributions that manage semi-compatible, > but distro specific "forks" of open source projects > instead of aiming for a distro compatible upstream > create quite some grief for developers.
Weighed up against making grief for users. > after all users don't tend to notice those incompatibilities, > but it breaks the tooling of developers We really try not to make changes that break tooling. And when we do, to fix the tools, upstream. > I'm at a point where i need to run self-compiled pythons, > since the ones in Debian for example are broken > for some of my use-cases by Debian specific patches/changes And that was the point of the dist-packages change. > what makes it worse is that the error reporting paths for the distro > specific "forks" aren't made clear Distros have bug trackers. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ H: +27 21 461 1230 C: +27 72 419 8559 _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
