Re: python packaging infrastructure

2006-01-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:06:39PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Josselin Mouette writes: > > Le lundi 16 janvier 2006 à 15:24 +0100, Matthias Klose a écrit : > > > This is the right direction, and adding support for extensions makes > > > this complete. Does your proposal allow rebuilding these p

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:42:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Programs that want to use python can assume that python-minimal is >> there (since it's Essential), and since python-minimal is never >> installed without python also installed, the

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:16:55AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > Just to clarify, because I'm also confused and genuinely curious... you > guys use the minimal package during bootstrapping or something and then by > the end of the installation process you will necessarily have the full > python som

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:09:30PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:42:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Programs that want to use python can assume that python-minimal is > > there (since it's Essential), and since python-minimal is never > > installed without pyt

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:42:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Programs that want to use python can assume that python-minimal is > there (since it's Essential), and since python-minimal is never > installed without python also installed, they can also now assume that > all of python, inclu

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:16:55AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > The difference between "installed" ("was installed initially") and > > "installed" ("is installed now"). The compromise we struck with upstream > > was that we would not give the user a system with a "broken" Python. If > > they c

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:38:55PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:18:48PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: >> > > That said, I don't really understand why it's Ok

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 17:58]: > For what it's worth, we've caught hell from the ruby community for breaking > the standard library in to its component parts and not installing it all by > default. This problem has been largely abrogated as of late, but I'd rather > not see

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:38:55PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:18:48PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > > That said, I don't really understand why it's Ok for Ubuntu to do this but > > > not us. > > > >

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:18:48PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > That said, I don't really understand why it's Ok for Ubuntu to do this but > > not us. > > Ubuntu never installs python-minimal without python, even in base. Ah, ok

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > That said, I don't really understand why it's Ok for Ubuntu to do this but > not us. Ubuntu never installs python-minimal without python, even in base. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:47:18PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:23:30PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 12:45]: > > > Please don't do this; it implies that python-minimal would be part > > > of base, but not full pytho

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:23:30PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 12:45]: > > Please don't do this; it implies that python-minimal would be part > > of base, but not full python, and this is something that python > > upstream explicitly objects to.

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Jeu 19 Janvier 2006 22:47, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:23:30PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 12:45]: > > > Please don't do this; it implies that python-minimal would be > > > part of base, but not full python, and th

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 12:45]: > Please don't do this; it implies that python-minimal would be part > of base, but not full python, and this is something that python > upstream explicitly objects to. Why? Surely having a sub-set of python is better than nothing at all, n

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:34:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > If we followed the same method for python-base, then we would > > a) instroduce python-base iff we had some package(s) written in python >that we wanted in the base system (apt-listchanges comes to mind) > b) include only the modules

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > FWIW the relevant design docs from when this was done in Ubuntu are > here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EssentialPython (requirements) > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PythonInEssential (details) > > The rationale for the set of included modules is in the latter, and was > basi

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:31 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:36:13PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:12 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Some reasons: > > > > > > * compatability with Ubuntu -- so that packages can be easily ported > > > back > >

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:14:17PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > you are able to do init.d scripts, pre- and postinsts etc in > python. That is a "ease of development" helper for ubuntu. All of those can be done today using dependencies. .config scripts, for example, cannot. -- - mdz --

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:21:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:56:59PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:12:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > * allowing us to easily use python (as well as C, C++ and perl) for > > > programs > > > i

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:14:17PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Anthony Towns [2006-01-19 19:21:07]: > > > In Ubuntu, we've split the package in > > > order to make -minimal essential, but never install it alone (both are > > > part > > > of base). > > Then what's the benefit of having pyt

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Anthony Towns [2006-01-19 19:21:07]: > > In Ubuntu, we've split the package in > > order to make -minimal essential, but never install it alone (both are part > > of base). > > Then what's the benefit of having python(-minimal) be essential at all? you are able to do init.d scripts, pre- and p

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:56:59PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:12:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > * allowing us to easily use python (as well as C, C++ and perl) for > > programs > > in the base system > > * allowing us to provide python early on installs

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:36:13PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:12 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Some reasons: > > > > * compatability with Ubuntu -- so that packages can be easily ported back > > and forth between us and them; I expect most of the work ubuntu mig