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Re: How to properly provide packages for python3.x



On Apr 14, 2010, at 07:01 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:

>Le mercredi 14 avril 2010 à 10:29 -0400, Barry Warsaw a écrit : 
>> >I was told that python-support does not support 3.X (see bug #573560).
>> 
>> I am hoping that none will be necessary.  PEP 3147 is very close to acceptance
>> and merging into the py3k upstream trunk, perhaps as soon as this Friday.  Of
>> course that means that symlink farms will no longer be necessary starting with
>> Python 3.2, but I would happily back port the essential parts of the patch to
>> 3.1 or even 2.6 and 2.7 if folks here want it, and think it will help.  I do
>> not think it would be difficult, and if it means simplifying Python
>> installations on Debian, I think it would be a big win.
>
>Even with PEP 3147, a helper is still necessary, at the very least to
>generate dependencies.
>
>Furthermore - unless I’m missing something - this PEP doesn’t say
>anything about supported Python versions by a given module. So even
>without a symlink farm, there is at least some magic needed to indicate
>which versions are supported, maybe in the .py files themselves.

You're right about that.  So a helper may still be necessary, but hopefully
simpler.  Would it make more sense to adapt python-support or python-central
or to create a third tool (like we need yet another one :).

-Barry

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