Re: question on packaging of python applications
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> writes:
> Say module x Depends: on Python. Where do you install it? python1.5 or
> python2.0? Remember that you must encode this information in the
> package itself.
Any package that has a binary extension in it will necessarily have to
be compiled for a specific Python version. Quite a few of the most
useful Python add-ons are in this category, so they would have to
transition to Python 2.0 in the same manner that a normal application
transitions to new versions of the libraries it depends on.
For things which are truly independent of the Python version, there is
/usr/lib/site-python. While python-base does not appear to create
this directory, it is part of the default sys.path (in the current
1.5.2 packages) and there are at least two packages (reportbug and
dpkg-python) which live there.
--Rob
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Rob Tillotson N9MTB <robt@debian.org>
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