[Python-Dev] disable writing .py[co]

[Guido van Rossum]

> I said that there is this Debian bug, Barry said that this was a bug
> in Debian itself, for not compiling all mailman source code, Matthias
> said that this doesn't apply to mm_cfg.py (i.e. Debian can't ship a
> precompiled mm_cfg.py), you asked what the problem is, I said that
> generating mm_cfg.pyc is the problem.

Sorry, I *still* don't understand why shipping an mm_cfg.pyc (that's
ignored because mm_cfg.py is newer) is a problem.  Or is Debian
shipping only .pyc files?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)