On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:36:13PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:12 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Some reasons: > > > > * compatability with Ubuntu -- so that packages can be easily ported back > > and forth between us and them; I expect most of the work ubuntu might do > > on improving boot up will require python-minimal > > This would be nice. Right now it's accomplished through patches Ubuntu > makes to dh_python and cdbs. They'd probably like to drop those.
As a point of information, Ubuntu doesn't patch dh_python at present, and I don't see any Python-related changes in cdbs at the moment either. > > I don't know what's actually in (or more importantly not in) > > python2.4-minimal though. > > I'm eyeballing right now. Things that jump out at me: > * No character encoding, translation, or locale handling. > * A little oddly, loss of shutil. > * No sockets. FWIW the relevant design docs from when this was done in Ubuntu are here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EssentialPython (requirements) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PythonInEssential (details) The rationale for the set of included modules is in the latter, and was basically done by taking each module in perl-base and mapping it to its Python equivalent. > The third seems like something software in base may want to do; I > mention it specifically because perl-base include socket support. Socket support does seem to be there: $ dpkg -c /mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.2-1ubuntu2_i386.deb | grep socket -rw-r--r-- root/root 49608 2006-01-17 12:59:02 ./usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socket.so -rw-r--r-- root/root 12876 2006-01-17 12:58:18 ./usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
