Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:37:47 +0900, js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >By "package", I meant APT, Ports for BSD, MacPorts, etc. > > I don't know about ports or macport, but Debian has recently > switched to a different policy for python packages which does not > involve as many Python version specific copies of things. You might > want to look at "python-central" and stdeb.
The version-specific copies are still there in the latest Debian practices. That's a necessary artefact of the per-version site-packages of Python. What has changed is that the tools in common use for Debian packaging of Python libraries have taken on the role of generating those per-version copies at install time. This means that, for pure-Python libraries, the source package need only contain a version-independent source and a declaration of which Python versions it should be installed for. The installation tool will take care of making the per-version copies in various places. -- \ "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." -- Mark | `\ Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
