Re: Question about python policy

2004-02-12 Thread Florent Rougon
Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It probably doesn't solve the case where you need a certain version of > python to run build-time test cases and such. I guess it might have been > a good idea, but since it didn't catch on, perhaps it was too > complicated. Build-time tests are run,

Re: Question about python policy

2004-02-12 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:28, Florent Rougon wrote: > There used to be a tool called python-central [...] It probably doesn't solve the case where you need a certain version of python to run build-time test cases and such. I guess it might have been a good idea, but since it didn't catch on, perhap

Re: Question about python policy

2004-02-11 Thread Florent Rougon
Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, Hi, > Firstly, it seems a little silly to duplicate all the code in both > packages. I guess there's really no other way of doing it, since there There used to be a tool called python-central (look in the mailing list archives) that allow

Re: Question about python policy

2004-02-11 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 02:14, Graham Wilson wrote: > > I think I'll do this for python-albatross as well. It'll be a really > > tiny package but at least it'll fix the issue of not being able to > > install both python 2.2 and 2.3 versions. > > Does it make sense to have both versions installed? Wh

Re: Question about python policy

2004-02-10 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:54:43PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 20:44, Graham Wilson wrote: > > This is the solution I use with the PyX package is to create a > > python-pyx-common package that both of the versioned packages depend on. > > This works fine for PyX, since th

Re: Question about python policy

2004-02-10 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 20:44, Graham Wilson wrote: > This is the solution I use with the PyX package is to create a > python-pyx-common package that both of the versioned packages depend on. > This works fine for PyX, since the -common package just cotains > read-only data files. I am not sure how w

Re: Question about python policy

2004-02-10 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:18:34PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > Secondly, the above scheme makes it impossible to install both > packages at the same time. This is because both packages provide the > same initscript, defaults file and logrotate file. [...] Another > solution would be to split a