On 16.2.2018 14:09, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
On 16 February 2018 at 11:25, Jan Kurik <jkurik@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jkurik@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Proposed Self Contained Change: No more automagic Python bytecompilation
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/No_more_automagic_Python_bytecompilation
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/No_more_automagic_Python_bytecompilation>
Owner(s):
* Miro Hrončok <mhroncok at redhat dot com>
* Petr Viktorin <pviktori at redhat dot com>
The current way of automatic Python byte-compiling of files outside
Python-specific directories is too magical and error-prone. It is
built on heuristics that are increasingly wrong.
Maybe instead throwing the baby out with the bathwater it would be
better to spend some time on prepare set of rules/advises/policies about
set of conditions which needs to be fulfilled about such scripts, and/or
even promote pushing necessary changes to original packages source trees?
I'm afraid I don't understand this part.
Is it good to tolerate install for examplepython modules
outside Python-specific directories?
It is good to tolerate private python modules in application specific
directories, such as /usr/share/coolapp/plugins/. It's completely valid
use case.
BTW python bytecode files. Three questions:
1) What do you guys are thinking about remove source .py files and move
them to debuginfo/debugsource packages?
This was considered several times in the past, but usually never
seriously. The possible problems overweight the benefit. Users (and
sysadmins, and we) are used to those files being there.
2) Currently seems are generates .pyc and .pyo files. Why not only .pyo
files? (python optimized bytecode). If .pyo files are installes .pyc are
redundant. Isn't it?
I believe this depends on how you invoke your Python when your import
those modules.
3) Currently all .pyc/.pyo/.py files are installed in
%{_libdir}/python<py.ver> tree.
Actually, for noarch packages this is /usr/lib/pythonX.Y even on 64bits
system.
In reality all those files are arch
independent.
Yes, see above.
Why not installed those files in
%{_datadir}/python<py.ver>?
There is a bug open for this for 8 years. Some day, maybe.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543756
This would allow build many/most of the
python modules as noarch packages.
We do that, see above.
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