On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 11:55 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

While helping to diagnose what appears to be a Fedora/RHEL specific problem with distutils, it occurred to me that it may be useful for triaging that kind of distribution specific problem if distro package maintainers (or at least points of contact) were listed in the experts file in the devguide: http://docs.python.org/devguide/experts

What do people think of the idea of adding specific distros (e.g. "Linux (Fedora/RHEL)", "Linux (Ubuntu)") to the "Platforms" table for cases related to building and packaging where it may not be clear if the problem lies within CPython or within the distro?

Feel free to add me for "Linux (Fedora/RHEL)".

On 26/04/2012 06:09, Ross Lagerwall wrote:

On 04/26/2012 03:55 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

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What do people think of the idea of adding specific distros (e.g. "Linux (Fedora/RHEL)", "Linux (Ubuntu)") to the "Platforms" table for cases related to building and packaging where it may not be clear if the problem lies within CPython or within the distro?

Definitely a good idea. How about even putting a link to the upstream packaging repository (if available) like: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=python.git

so others can easily inspect what patches the distro is using.

That's probably not the right place to put the link. Hmm, maybe there should be a page on the wiki with information about the state of python in the various linux distributions. E.g. what version is in each distro version, the maintainer, a link to the downstream repo/patches, etc.

Regards

Ross Lagerwall