[Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy

[Michael scherer]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 06:15:52PM +0100, philippe makowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I though that I can find more time to work on this week end, but
> unfortunately it was not the case.
> 
> The Mandriva doc is really not a good starter
> (http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Python_packaging_policy)

That's just a draft, but as the one that wrote the draft, could I
know what is wrong with what was written so far ?

> so I propose to use the Fedora one
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python) with some cleaning.
> 
> Can we provide  same macros as in In Fedora 13 and greater ?
> 
> Do you see any major problem with the Fedora policy ?

First they make plan for having more than one version of python, something
that I always told I will not do since no one stepped to do much to help
on the transition. In short, as long the python team will in practice be only me
( and in practice, I mean "people who effectivly commit" ), we will have only 1 supported
version of the stack. 
( I consider python 3 to be a different language, because of the 
source level incompatibility ).
 
There is also the issue on bytecompilation ( https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50484 ).
I have exposed there the various problem, and apart from explaining
that the solution I chosed was not better than the other, no one gave a compeling
argument into one or the others alternatives.

Finally, a vast part of the policy is handling 2to3, a topic that we didn't discuss 
at all, and I would not be confortable to adopt it without first looking at it and
discussing it.

Not to mention that our policy draft speak of thing they do not include
( like naming policy, for a start ).

-- 
Michael Scherer