Re: new dh_python proposal

2009-08-04 Thread anatoly techtonik
Hello, Piotr. In short - your post is long. Brain is limited. Better place an overview in wiki and discuss in parts. Before discussing your proposal I would really appreciate if somebody from insiders could describe situation in Debian Python in all possible detail including the history of devel

Re: new dh_python proposal

2009-08-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:00:09PM -0400, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Now about the proposal (from newcomer's point of view): > dh_python is a shell script -- I have a strong belief that Python > package automation scripts should be written in Python, there is no > need to learn bashes when you prog

Re: new dh_python proposal

2009-08-04 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[anatoly techtonik, 2009-08-04] > Before discussing your proposal I would really appreciate if somebody > from insiders could describe situation in Debian Python in all > possible detail including the history of development. I believe that > this piece of work is absolutely necessary, because the p

Modules with changing APIs/ABIs

2009-08-04 Thread Torsten Marek
Hi, python-sip4 (the runtime support library beneath all bindings of Qt for Python) changes its ABI with more or less every major release, and sometimes between minor releases. While practically no code uses it directly, all Python extension modules using Qt or KDE depend on it and have to be reco

Re: Existing modules for new Python

2009-08-04 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:33:45 -0400, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Can anybody tell what happens with existing Python modules when a new > Python version is deployed on the system? > Are they recompiled or reinstalled or left inaccessible in this version? They are left on the system in /usr/lib/pytho