Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder writes: > On Saturday 20 March 2004 08.45, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > Instead, it ships a single precompiled > > > ..pyc file supplied by upstream, which, according to README.SOURCE in the > > > source package, is created by concatenating all the source files and > > > running the result to force Python to compile it. > > > > FWIW: I fully agree. If that's the way pysol is intended to be generated, > > it should be done in the build target, of course, not by upstream. > > Hmmm. The python packages themselves even only compile the .py files on > installation. I believe python packages should perhaps be consistent there.
be careful ... the files are compiled when installing into the temporary installation directory. afterwards they are removed.