[Python-Dev] Python 3.4 RPM on AIX

[Blaxton]

Hi Zach,
I think it is best to remove the .spec file if it is not supported by Python developers.It is misleading to ship unsupported file within source tree.
Thanks for reply.



      From: Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com>
 To: "python-dev at python.org" <python-dev at python.org> 
Cc: Blaxton <blaxxton at yahoo.com> 
 Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 11:54 PM
 Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.4 RPM on AIX
   
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Blaxton
<blaxxton at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
> I am using the spec file that comes with Python source code which downloaded
> from python.org website
> source file is set on spec file to file with bz2 format while there is only
> .xz and zipped are available to download.
>
>
> I thought somehow some one from development team has wrote that .spec file
> and maybe supporting it.
>
> This is like no support.

The spec file in Misc/RPM has not been maintained in quite some time;
the last change to that file that wasn't just a version bump was one
[1] whose commit message was "#5776: fix mistakes in python specfile.
(Nobody probably uses it anyway.)" and was committed four and a half
years ago.  It's not unlikely that you're the first person to use the
file since then :).

We should probably just remove the file, but if you manage to get it
working and would like to provide a patch on bugs.python.org, it would
probably be accepted.



[1] https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ef75ecd0e1a7

-- 
Zach


  
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