On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 21:25 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2008, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > > Within the next few days Python 2.6 will be imported into Rawhide. This > > means that EVERY single Python-based package in Rawhide will be broken, > > Hmm, to clarify: really every one, or "just" every one that installs files > into versioned python dirs and/or depends on versioned python(abi)? > > If a package installs some *.py, *.pyc, *.pyo somewhere else than in versioned > python dirs, and the source *.py is python 2.6 compatible, will the *.pyc and > *.pyo compiled with 2.5 break with 2.6? For example, is it > necessary/beneficial to rebuild packages like rpmlint (all its python code is > either in /usr/bin or /usr/share/rpmlint)? The Python API version (1013) has not changed between 2.5 and 2.6, therefore the bytecode is compatible and .pyc and .pyo files in version-independent locations do not need to be recompiled. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet@xxxxxxxxx> PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
-- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
