Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:37:15AM +0100, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: | On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:22, Ben Burton wrote: | > | > Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and | > converts it back to python source. | | No offense, but when would you need such a tool? I'm not

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Ben Burton
> > Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and > > converts it back to python source. > > No offense, but when would you need such a tool? I'm not critical to > packaging this for debian, just wondering when I would need it. I've already used it once, when I inadver

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 18:22, Ben Burton wrote: > > Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and > converts it back to python source. > No offense, but when would you need such a tool? I'm not critical to packaging this for debian, just wondering when I would need it.

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
* Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02 19:20]: > > > c) A wrapper that auto-detects the format of the .pyc file and calls the > > according variant (detection of the .pyc format should be pretty easy, > > it's just a magic number, cf. /usr/share/misc/magic). > > Hm, I'll try and find some docum

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Ben Burton
> c) A wrapper that auto-detects the format of the .pyc file and calls the > according variant (detection of the .pyc format should be pretty easy, > it's just a magic number, cf. /usr/share/misc/magic). Hm, I'll try and find some documentation on how to extract the version information. > > If th

Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
* Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02 18:22]: > > Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and > converts it back to python source. > > Thing is, decompyle needs to be run with the same version of python that was > used to create the bytecode. > > So the questio

Packaging decompyle - policy question

2001-11-12 Thread Ben Burton
Hi. So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and converts it back to python source. Thing is, decompyle needs to be run with the same version of python that was used to create the bytecode. So the question arises as to what should go in /usr/bin. Options I see are: a