On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >[Omer Zak, 2010-04-20] >> My take of the situation: >> Yes, please backport PEP 3147 to at least Python 2.7. >> The rationale: we'll need to support both Python 2.x and Python 3.x for >> several years, and it will be nice if the same library package can be >> made to support both 2.x and 3.x. > >you cannot (in most cases) share 2.X and 3.X Python code, so adding it >to 2.7 and not to 2.6 doesn't make sense Just thinking out loud: How insane would it be to think of an import hook that could do it at run time? Or, a compilall switch that would do it when the pyc file was generated? You'd need some way to specify that a particular module could/should not be auto-converted, or conversely if automatic support were more the exception, some way to say it can be done. I wonder if something in the debian/[control|rules] file could trigger that. >I doubt we'll touch 2.X packages in Debian Squeeze and in Squeeze+1 >we'll most probably have only 1 Python 2.X version (if any) so I don't >see a point in backporting it in Debian. Good to know, thanks. >If you want to ship two 2.X Python versions in Ubuntu, you could use my >new dh_python for that (I hope to finish it soon), but you'd have to >convert *all* packages to it and lets face it, python2.5 and python2.6 >transitions in Ubuntu (at least in universe) were... well not even >close to Debian's quality and these transitions didn't require that much >work... Sorry, I don't really know the history of any of that so I can't comment. But I would like to know more about your new dh_python, what changes it would require, etc. Where can I find it, or information about it? -Barry
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