On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> wrote: > Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 10:09 -0800, Ondrej Certik a écrit : >> Unfortunately from both of you I only met Matthias in person (in >> Prague at the Ubuntu Developer Summit), but what I understood is that >> there are some technical reasons why python-central is better. > > I'd be happy to hear these reasons; I'm always eager to improve > python-support when there is room to. > > Currently I know one reason why you could consider python-central > better: this is because it installs files at the same place the upstream > packages do. This avoids breaking some (bad) packages' expectations. I > have two remarks about this: > * The python-support README has documented for long how to work > around this problem if you encounter it (remember it concerns a > handful of packages). > * If python-support was the only tool to write files > to /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages, there would be no problem > with using this directory. However there are packages using > python-central and packages shipping files directly there, so it > is simply not possible without losing the advantages of > python-support (like, not introducing 50 RC bugs every time > something is changed). > > Besides, I could show you several reasons why python-support is > superior, and at least one why python-central is broken.
I forgot already what those reasons were, Matthias told me in Prague and they seemed reasonable to me. In fact, we were having a similar flame discussion about python-central and python-support just before the summit on this list and the result of which was (to me, as a bystander) that python-support is clearly superior, so I asked Matthias about it, and he provided some good arguments for python-central. But these arguments should be put on the list and things should get discussed and fixed. Anyway, I think now it's Matthias' turn to come forward and also do a few steps to get this discussed and eventually fixed. Ondrej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
