On 20-Feb-2002 dman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:57:52AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >| >> >| >> What do you have against giving the user optimizations? >| > >| > Absolutely nothing, but I don't see why this needs to be done outside of >| > the package management system. >| >| I fail to see why these files need to be known by dpkg? Many python modules >| are forwards compatible, > > The bytecode files are version-specific even if the source code isn't.
which was my point. To have multiple version support the object files must be made at install time.
