Le lundi 10 septembre 2007 à 11:25 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit : > > BTW I've just learned from your reply that python2.4 in Debian was > > patched to create eggs for distutils packages. This change was decided > > unilaterally by the python maintainer without being discussed here. I > > can understand the rationale for it, but I don't like the idea of > > encouraging more upstream developers to use eggs. > > > Any information on the rationale from you or the python maintainer is > appreciated by me. In deciding what kind of policy we want to adopt I'm > collecting all the information I can get :-)
I guess the rationale is simply to save work, avoiding to patch a few packages for generating eggs, and generating dummy eggs for all packages that might need one some day. > OTOH, Debian has a greater history of supporting several versions of a > package than Fedora... just not python packages. (Look at the python > interpreter itself or any of the multi-versioned libraries). > Conceptually, this has precedent it's just the particulars that are new. We ship multiple python versions, but one of the goals of being able to easily install them is to ease transitions in unstable, so that only a single version ends in a stable release. BTW if you want such features, you might want to have a look at python-support. I don't think it would require too much work to port it to Fedora. > > Ideally TG should be made compatible with version 3 if this isn't too > > complicated. > > > I know it. Unfortunately upstream TG itself gave up the effort to port > to cherrypy3 (TG2 will be based on paste instead). cherrpy really > should have versioned their version 3 release but we're not upstream so > *sigh*. Not changing the name while breaking the API doesn't look like a sensible choice indeed. > > I don't think you need listen to anything the setuptools developers say, > > as they have close to zero understanding of the packaging issues they > > create for us. > > > Heh, I know how you feel but I try to resist giving in to it since we're > going to be living in a world with setuptools for the foreseeable future > and we'll all have to learn to communicate and compromise in pursuit of > our goals. Dealing with setuptools is one necessary thing to achieve, but I don't think it requires listening to its developers' advice. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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