The two drawbacks to making it a separate package are: 1) The tasks involved in making a separate package are a big pain. 2) Moving translations is going to be a bit tricky. But the advantage is that it can be used outside of blivet. There is nothing about it which is really blivet specific, and I think that it should be made possible to use w/out requiring blivet. I don't mind if it's usable only from Python. I feel like its better to assist Python programmers than to enable C programmers, who probably wouldn't appreciate it's facilities anyway. It makes use of Python facilities like unbounded ints and the Decimal class in its implementation. These are not so easy to come by in C. - mulhern ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vratislav Podzimek" <vpodzime@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer" <anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 5:45:38 AM > Subject: Re: Announcing the existance of a separate python-bytesize package to handle the Size functionality of > blivet. > > On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 12:45 -0500, Anne Mulhern wrote: > > Alas, it is not fully packaged yet, because I know so little about how to > > do this packaging thing, > > or how to know if I've done it right. > > > > The code is here: https://github.com/rhinstaller/bytesize. > Maybe a stupid question, but what's the benefit of this over having the > same as a blivet subpackage? I'd completely understand moving it outside > if you e.g. wanted to rewrite the code as GObject code so that it's > usable not only from python. But keeping the code more or less the same > I don't see a benefit of having this as a separate codebase and separate > component (in bugzilla, everywhere). > > -- > Vratislav Podzimek > > Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list > _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
