Re: Rename of boost-python to python2-boost

2017-09-13 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 13/09/17 04:39 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:54:24PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On 12/09/17 18:41 -0400, Scott Talbert wrote: >On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > >>>Was this package rename discussed anywhere? >>> >>>I don't thin

Re: Rename of boost-python to python2-boost

2017-09-12 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:54:24PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 12/09/17 18:41 -0400, Scott Talbert wrote: > >On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > >>>Was this package rename discussed anywhere? > >>> > >>>I don't think it makes any sense. It's not a python package, as

Re: Rename of boost-python to python2-boost

2017-09-12 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 12/09/17 18:41 -0400, Scott Talbert wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: Was this package rename discussed anywhere? I don't think it makes any sense. It's not a python package, as the name python2-boost would suggest. Hi, yes, it was discussed on fedora-devel@

Re: Rename of boost-python to python2-boost

2017-09-12 Thread Scott Talbert
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: Was this package rename discussed anywhere? I don't think it makes any sense. It's not a python package, as the name python2-boost would suggest. Hi, yes, it was discussed on fedora-devel@ and python@ for a few weeks. An announcement wa

Re: Rename of boost-python to python2-boost

2017-09-12 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 12/09/17 19:48 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:56:02PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: Was this package rename discussed anywhere? I don't think it makes any sense. It's not a python package, as the name python2-boost would suggest. Hi, yes, it was discu

Re: Rename of boost-python to python2-boost

2017-09-12 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:56:02PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > Was this package rename discussed anywhere? > > I don't think it makes any sense. It's not a python package, as the > name python2-boost would suggest. Hi, yes, it was discussed on fedora-devel@ and python@ for a few weeks. An an

Rename of boost-python to python2-boost

2017-09-12 Thread Jonathan Wakely
Was this package rename discussed anywhere? I don't think it makes any sense. It's not a python package, as the name python2-boost would suggest. It installs a shared library, libboost_python2.so, which is a library of C++ symbols that implement the Boost.Python C++ library. Why is "python2-boo