Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Carey Evans
Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - My package is now broken and I have to reupload it, even though all > I need to change is the #!. They'll probably be Debian policy changes, new upstream versions of your program, and/or changes in the Python language that require you to do a new u

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Carey Evans
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bms:~# ls -l /usr/bin/python* > -rwxr-xr-x2 root root 3040 Apr 10 02:09 /usr/bin/python > -rwxr-xr-x2 root root 3040 Apr 10 02:09 /usr/bin/python1.5 > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 3080 Jun 23 15:52 /usr/bin/python2 >

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Jul 12, Bruce Sass wrote: > > bin/python. > > and > > bin/python > > > > as hardlinks... > > > > ...calling "python-wrapper" to execute the program is definately not > > portable to other systems. > > True... but it would only be done by Pytho

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:03:07AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Surely adopting a convention of... > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/env python[major.minor] > > > > ... > > I object to this. It make scripts n

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jul 12, Bruce Sass wrote: > On 12 Jul 2001, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Surely adopting a convention of... > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/env python[major.minor] > > > > > > ...is preferable. > > > > > > It does the same thing without additional runtime ov

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On 12 Jul 2001, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Surely adopting a convention of... > > > > #!/usr/bin/env python[major.minor] > > > > ...is preferable. > > > > It does the same thing without additional runtime overhead and > > without creating a class of Debi

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:03:07AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Surely adopting a convention of... > > > > #!/usr/bin/env python[major.minor] > > ... > I object to this. It make scripts not portable to other systems as > it currently does

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Carey Evans
More random thoughts... How many versions of Python do we really need to support at one time? Zope and Mailman both need Python 1.5.2 (and depend on python-base >= 1.5.2-x, BTW), but don't need any extra packages like mxDateTime. If there are any other packages that don't work with Python 2.1, do

Re: Status report on python2 transition

2001-07-12 Thread Jérôme Marant
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Surely adopting a convention of... > > #!/usr/bin/env python[major.minor] > > ...is preferable. > > It does the same thing without additional runtime overhead and > without creating a class of Debian-specific Python programs. I object to this.