Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-03 Thread J�r�me Marant
Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW: is there yet a .deb package for the Distutils? If not, I will package > it (when I am a Debian Developer, I am still in the queue). It is already in woody and packaged by Matthias Klose. It is named python-distutils. -- Jérôme Marant <

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-03 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Hi, it seems there are some points to _not_ precompile Python files. - packages get bigger (they get substantially bigger, more than twice the size if they have lots of .py files) - compatibility: I found the official wrapup Third party extensions built for Python 1.5.x or 1.6 cannot be use

Re: question on packaging of python applications

2000-11-03 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > >I recently created a debian file for my project (see http://subterfugue.org), > >and discovered just now why including .pyc and .pyo files directly doesn't > >work optimally. > Where is the problem? Python bytecode should be platform > independent!