Re: versioned .so files (over in python-dev)
On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >What's the point in making distutils produce versioned .so? Such a change is >going to break lots of packages for exactly zero benefit: Why so? >helper tools will need to do unversioned->versioned renames anyway, in order >to handle non-distutils build systems. Such helper tools will still need to know what versioned names Python will import. Having it in distutils will make the common case easy. It does indicate that external tools will need to know what names a particular Python build supports. It probably shouldn't be hardcoded. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: versioned .so files (over in python-dev)
* Barry Warsaw , 2010-06-24, 17:31: For those of you not closely following python-dev, I've made a proposal for versioned .so file naming for Python 3.2. It would allow us to place extension module .so files for different Python versions (or really, Python builds, e.g. 3.2/3.3, debug, UCS2/4, etc) in the same directory without naming collisions. The thread starts here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-June/100998.html Except as it specifically impacts Debian, it's probably best to comment on the proposal over in python-dev. What's the point in making distutils produce versioned .so? Such a change is going to break lots of packages for exactly zero benefit: helper tools will need to do unversioned->versioned renames anyway, in order to handle non-distutils build systems. -- Jakub Wilk signature.asc Description: Digital signature
versioned .so files (over in python-dev)
For those of you not closely following python-dev, I've made a proposal for versioned .so file naming for Python 3.2. It would allow us to place extension module .so files for different Python versions (or really, Python builds, e.g. 3.2/3.3, debug, UCS2/4, etc) in the same directory without naming collisions. The thread starts here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-June/100998.html Except as it specifically impacts Debian, it's probably best to comment on the proposal over in python-dev. -Barry signature.asc Description: PGP signature
