On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:01:17 -0400 Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > > > >Why would a distro want to provide all combinations of Python builds? > > Maybe not all, but definitely several. At least a normal build and a debug > build, but a wide unicode build possibly also.
What is the point of shipping a different unicode representation? Is there any practical use case? I could understand a motivated user trying different build flags for the purpose of experimentation and personal enlightenment, but a Linux distribution? (also, Debian's Python already defaults on wide unicode) > >As for the SOABI, you could use a different mangling which would > >preserve the ".so" suffix -- e.g. "-debug.so" instead of ".so.d". At > >least then well-known conventions would be preserved. > > We already have libpython3.2.so.1.0 which also doesn't end in .so. ".so.<number>" is a well-understood Unix convention, while ".so.<some additional letters>" doesn't seem to be. (this also means that tools such as file managers etc. may not display the file type properly) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com