Re: Installed wajig 0.2.11-1 (i386 source)

[Malcolm Parsons <malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net>]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:07:06PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> 
> > python modules should be supplied as source, and byte compiled in the
> > postinst.
> 
> No, they should be byte compiled during package creation.

There is no point byte compiling during package creation, as every time
the python2.{1,2} packages are upgraded, every .py file is byte
compiled again anyway:

python2.2.postinst:
        for i in $DIRLIST ; do
            /usr/bin/python2.2 -O /usr/lib/python2.2/compileall.py -q $i
            /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/lib/python2.2/compileall.py -q $i
        done

resulting in:
malcolm@arthur:/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Guppi$ ls -l
total 328
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        71237 Jan  4 21:50 __init__.py
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       120672 Jan  9 21:00 __init__.pyc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       115395 Jan  9 21:00 __init__.pyo

Unless you think it took 5 days to build this package?

It's also a waste of archive space, bandwidth, etc.

As I upgrade over a modem, making packages the useful part of a package 4 times smaller is IMHO a very good idea.