On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:55:23AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> I suggest we update the python2-* packages to reflect this new version
> and the license change, which largely involves changing Description and
> README.why-python2. We also don't have to avoid GPL'ed code in that
> package any more.
This at least should be done immediately.
> Also, we should consider when we will move python2-* to python-*; I
> imagine that the only hurdle in the way of that now is compatibility
> with existing applications; maybe we should do something similar to what
> was done with autoconf, and rename python-* to python1.5-* and rename
> python2-* to python-*, and file bugs against packages that won't work
> with python2-* to depend on python1.5-* instead. (Please correct me if
> I'm wrong in my analogy with what happened to autoconf.)
AFAICR, python 1.5 -> 2.0 is a pretty simple conversion in most cases.
The biggest thing I remember is some implicit tupling you could do in 1.5
that 2.0 refuses to tollerate. Most python written in recent history has
been written with 2.0 in mind regardless of the GPL issues since people
who use python had figured the new stuff would get into a GPL compatible
python one way or another. I suspect therefore that the number of things
which break under 2.0 should be small.
I would recommend finding out what doesn't work with 2.0 first and then
trying to figure out what does or doesn't need fixing. If there isn't
much, file bugs, set a deadline, and just switch. Of course if there is a
lot, the forced march approach obviously won't work. I don't expect many
problems though and if I'm right the deadline's probably the best way - if
there's one thing consistant around here, it's procrastination. =)
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