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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