Re: multiple pythons and the default

2006-05-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat May 6 2006 05:11, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 06 May 2006, Bruce Sass wrote: > > I am wondering what defines the "default python", is it the one any > > /usr/bin/python provided by the "python" package. Right now it's 2.3.5. So it is arbitrary, as in there is no technical reason whic

Re: multiple pythons and the default

2006-05-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 06 mai 2006 à 04:29 -0600, Bruce Sass a écrit : > Is it unreasonable to want to install a module package which should work > with any Python and have *.pyc's automatically compiled for an > interpreter which lives in /usr/local/bin, or install a local > interpreter and have Debian atte

Re: multiple pythons and the default

2006-05-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 06 May 2006, Bruce Sass wrote: > I am wondering what defines the "default python", is it the one any /usr/bin/python provided by the "python" package. Right now it's 2.3.5. Supporting other versions apart from this one is only a convenience issue for our users. Right now we have many pyt

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:57:17PM +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Any summaries, partial specs, top level descriptions, particularly good > >> explanations of the stumbling blocks, etc., available for reading? > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PythonRoad

multiple pythons and the default

2006-05-06 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, I am wondering what defines the "default python", is it the one any Python using Debian-native package must depend on, the one used by python-support[1], the one all python dependent packages are urged to work with, one meeting some other criteria, an arbitrary choice? As I try to catch up