[py-dev] [py-svn] r58518 - py/build/fedora

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Hi Holger,

2008/10/1 holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu>:
[snip]
> yes, you are right.  However, currently it prevents things
> from getting packaged on fedora because they have a policy of
> not having duplication of stdlib python modules and are using
> python>=2.4 on their distribution anyway.  This hasn't been a
> problem with other distributions i think.  thm (who does the
> fedora packaging) will try to convince them to allow py/compat
> and otherwise the above will be a fedora and 0.9.2 specific change.
> In this case, i think it's pragmatic to not argue much.

Ok, makes sense as a strategy. I guess in an environment where all
your software is packaged you can depend on the correct Python version
being there in theory, so I kind of understand where the Fedora people
are coming from.

> For 1.0 we should look into getting things from 2.6 and
> maybe we then have a stronger case for the fedora packaging
> reviewers.

Right, as they probably won't switch to 2.6 for a while.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich