Re: Announcing the existance of a separate python-bytesize package to handle the Size functionality of blivet.

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On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 08:30 -0500, Anne Mulhern wrote:
> 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.
A subpackage built from the blivet sources doesn't have to depend on
blivet at all. And it can even have a totally unrelated name.

> 
> 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.
That's exactly why it would be really useful in C too. e.g. in udisks,
Cockpit or whatever non-python project.

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Vratislav Podzimek

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