<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div>Hi Zach,</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">I think it is best to remove the .spec file if it is not supported by Python developers.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9507" dir="ltr">It is misleading to ship unsupported file within source tree.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9542" dir="ltr"><br></div>Thanks for reply.<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9462" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9461" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9460"><span></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9131" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9130" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9372" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9452" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9453" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pydev@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "python-dev@python.org" <python-dev@python.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Blaxton <blaxxton@yahoo.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, February 16, 2015 11:54 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.4 RPM on AIX<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9129" class="y_msg_container"><br>On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Blaxton<br clear="none"><<a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424224158193_9459" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:blaxxton@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid" href="mailto:blaxxton@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid">blaxxton@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> I am using the spec file that comes with Python source code which downloaded<br clear="none">> from python.org website<br clear="none">> source file is set on spec file to file with bz2 format while there is only<br clear="none">> .xz and zipped are available to download.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I thought somehow some one from development team has wrote that .spec file<br clear="none">> and maybe supporting it.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> This is like no support.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The spec file in Misc/RPM has not been maintained in quite some time;<br clear="none">the last change to that file that wasn't just a version bump was one<br clear="none">[1] whose commit message was "#5776: fix mistakes in python specfile.<br clear="none">(Nobody probably uses it anyway.)" and was committed four and a half<br clear="none">years ago. It's not unlikely that you're the first person to use the<br clear="none">file since then :).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">We should probably just remove the file, but if you manage to get it<br clear="none">working and would like to provide a patch on bugs.python.org, it would<br clear="none">probably be accepted.<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt4813082397" id="yqtfd84169"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">[1] </div><a shape="rect" href="https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ef75ecd0e1a7" target="_blank">https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ef75ecd0e1a7</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Zach<div class="yqt4813082397" id="yqtfd94068"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>