Re: [gentoo-dev] The Python problem

2011-06-27 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon

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Re: [gentoo-dev] The Python problem

2011-06-27 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org writes:

 I guess by now pretty much everyone knows that the python eclass is
 rather complex, and that this poses some problems. This has also been
 an important cause for the disagreements between Arfrever and some of
 the other developers. Since it appears that Arfrever won't be
 committing much code to gentoo-x86 in the near future, I'm trying to
 figure out where we should go with the python.eclass. This email is an
 attempt at figuring that out, plus eliciting ideas to come up with a
 general framework that will also solve this for ruby and other similar
 runtimes (while supporting some of the features that the current
 python eclass has, but that ruby-ng doesn't have).

 So I know a bunch of people have already looked at it, and I'd like to
 know: what do you find better about the Ruby approach compared to the
 Python approach? Is it just the size of python.eclass, or are there a
 number of other issues?

Let's skip the Ruby step, and go directly to Common Lisp!

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