Re: [Distutils] Disposition of C extensions and packages
On Dec 20, 5:29pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Subject: Re: [Distutils] Disposition of C extensions and packages [Michael Sanner]
What management are you talking about here ?? It seems to me that duplicate copies of identical files (one copy per platform) is inconvenient (at least for my perspective).
Suppose a new version of a package is released for platform X but not yet for platform Y (maybe platform Y is less popular and the only maintainer is on vacation). Further suppose the platform-independent files are changed in the new version. Now if you install it in the shared area for platform X, you screw platform Y's installation. Without a shared area, each platform can update without affecting the others.
OK, you have a point there ! although this raises the issue of packages version support !
Moreover, why provide an prefix and an exec_prefix if we are going to put everything into the same tree anyway ??
They are old features; 5 years ago this was worth it to save 0.5 Mb of disk space.
Does that mean that this will disapear ? it is it old stuff, it should ! Or do you think that the /sys.prefix/lib should remain shared ? While we're at it, maybe the extensions that are distributed along with the Python intertpreter should be re-evaluated. I have a hard time explaining why some extensions like the rotor module are part of the Python standard distribution while Numeric is not ! These might be details, but I am in the process of trying to convince people at SDSC (San Diego Suppercomputer Center) to support Python for their users and questions like these are raised ! -Michel -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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