Re: Ending/reducing bytecode compilation, loosening dependencies

2006-01-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 01 janvier 2006 à 16:14 -0600, Joe Wreschnig a écrit : > > The real fix for this issue isn't to stop generating the .pyc files. It > > is to make python not generate any .pyc files at all when running as > > root. > > Well, I would say, not generate any pyc files unless requested, > re

Re: Ending/reducing bytecode compilation, loosening dependencies

2006-01-01 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:09 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > 2. Stop compiling .pyc files (this I expect to be contentious), unless a > > package wants to. > > > > Rationale: .pyc files have a minimal gain, and numerous failings. > > > > Advantages of .pyc files: > > * .pyc files make Python im

Re: Ending/reducing bytecode compilation, loosening dependencies

2006-01-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 30 décembre 2005 à 12:33 -0600, Joe Wreschnig a écrit : > 1. Stop compiling .pyo files, entirely (I'm hoping for little argument > on this). > > Rationale: .pyo files are a joke. They aren't optimized in any > meaningful sense, they just have asserts removed. Examples for several > non

Re: Ending/reducing bytecode compilation, loosening dependencies

2006-01-01 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:59:45PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > What would you suggest doing about "hybrid" packages which are primarily > applications, but also want to make their modules available to other > Python programs? Two examples here are pychecker and epydoc (both > maintained by m