-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 10:37 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > Hey, > > As I was looking at the rpm.spec and fixing up a small bit of the > build for the Python bindings, it occurred to me that we have left > python-rpm-generators out of sync with rpm. > > I'm wondering if it even makes sense to keep that as a separate source > package, and instead build the python3-rpm-generators subpackage from > the main rpm package. I'd much rather do that as it makes it much > easier to keep everything in sync. > > We inherited the split from Fedora, who did it for their failed > modularity effort to try to make a base system environment that was > only C and shell but also contain the rpm-build package (I didn't say > it made sense...). From the point of view of Mageia, who is unlikely > to attempt what Fedora is doing, I'm not sure there's a particular > value in doing so. I was not even particularly enthused about this > when Fedora did it... > > Insofar as bytecompilation issues are concerned, we should probably > rename the file on install to not have the .py suffix, so that the > Python interpreter doesn't consider it as something to bytecompile. > That will allow us to avoid the issues that necessitate python -> rpm > -> python rebuilds. > > What do you all think?
To be honest, I would like to separate even upstream to its own repository. I don't think it makes sense to keep it part of RPM itself. CCing python SIG and RPM maintainers for their feedback. - -- - -Igor Gnatenko -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEhLFO09aHZVqO+CM6aVcUvRu8X0wFAlpbS2oACgkQaVcUvRu8 X0wuQA//c/dzTdVrqe9KSfW2kapfFwhYwJvHGH2aD5WZNxqkcYSvwnXh1tUzfEtO GYwedYcEneTPpoI4IbHq+v7s5ds7BEWdlI6BNF/dlQOk98J+8HSXeikoqoC9g845 nTwwvJh6d7la0O0Jc2XRIHgqw/Flw5YhtQPyfo5jCvEX42LsMGmRvpVRJsVftvud XFFFTVAgCS2kJTAiygiRx2vkx/adtcucmAOBGG9TAUnoEH4glHSyslyJFyWo/M2K GDgxXfqnaseuiHPkQ3S4hgw+oBxuHxQ6GMB2n/ktQqY9XVYy9JODBG77VgLrjt+G kw/h0pfHetIN8mafrvkPXHmF7d4fS/CCS/W47BUm+f9qRiyw1Mpd48XugL+1IWHM 3/X1H1uWXNBDJKevVZoXkPO4qYV6shqXHAwtWBlTqnoH6UmM08Ob/Xvd+BLgU8wp 1Fu03KrmD8swBo0JtLsaecypYEEmeK5FmgVtl8AiCsoLi65Qwq/4RA3C6dA1AMCo aROpHrA1oDexq6fW1bQPhXIjzJtVPGC85+aomKPkVRM4+Fk6ceUrTJ0tEAA2kCkw mLhh6sTsMrq4epK3buM6n/brRLwffsrLO4cESeWBqlPKnfYuinEt3yJglDhWHaaS 132dyoIx7Tc4VM0Fe7sKay9WgwbpK80eom/Y4hSas30vVnSTE3o= =Sm5k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
