Re: Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 likely to be released at the end of the week

2010-03-16 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 07:45:27PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 are due at the end of this week. > > I plan to build 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 into Fedora 14 as soon as they're > released (though if any other maintainer wants to do this, feel free!) > > My feeling is that they're to

Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 likely to be released at the end of the week

2010-03-16 Thread David Malcolm
Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 are due at the end of this week. I plan to build 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 into Fedora 14 as soon as they're released (though if any other maintainer wants to do this, feel free!) My feeling is that they're too late for F-13 at this point in the schedule [1]. Having said that, if en

Upstream revamp of byte-compilation

2010-03-16 Thread David Malcolm
IIRC, we currently jump through some hoops in brp-python-bytecompile; upstream landed some new ways of doing this in this patch for 2.7/3.2: http://bugs.python.org/issue8140 (Not sure if it's helpful as I think Toshio solved this already in F13's rpm-build, but I wanted to at least send it to the

Re: Trying out a new way of packaging Python modules

2010-03-16 Thread Andrew Parker
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:53 PM, David Malcolm wrote: > I suspect we'd need an exclusion syntax (e.g. "this module isn't > buildable on PyPy", "this module isn't buildable on 2.7 with ppc"); you > can perhaps express this using things like: > > if [ $(rpm-pyconfig --eval @major_versi...@minor_ver

Re: Trying out a new way of packaging Python modules

2010-03-16 Thread Felix Schwarz
Hi David, I have to say I'm a bit sceptic about adding more runtimes to one distribution [1]. This will increase the maintenance burden and the general packaging complexity with no real benefit to me. Personally I (as a developer) find it easy enough to support Python 2.4-2.6 in one software (