On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 19:41 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Python 3 traditionally in Fedora was built with a shared library > > libpython3.?.so and the final binary was dynamically linked against > > that shared library. This change is about creating the static library > > and linking the final python3 binary against it, > > I oppose this change, because this is yet another size increase: Up to ~27% speed increase for extra ~3.4 MB storage used seems like a good trade-off to me... > > > As a negative side effect, when both libpython3.8.so and > > /usr/bin/python3.8 are installed, the filesystem footprint will be > > slightly increased (libpython3.8.so on Python 3.8.0, x86_64 is ~3.4M). > > and while: > > > OTOH only a very small amount of packages will depend on > > libpython3.8.so. > > in practice, that does not help because some of those packages are installed > by default, e.g., the ones you mentioned being installed by default even on > the Docker image: > > > *'''libcomps''' > > *'''libdnf''' > > *'''vim''' > > but there are more, such as gdb, libreoffice, krita, boost, etc. that are > installed on various live images, and calamares, which is popular on > remixes. So all those images will be bloated as a result of your code > duplicating change. > > > In addition: > > > By applying this change, libpython's namespace will be separated from > > Python's, so '''C extension which are still linked to libpython''' > > might experience side effects or break. > > so compatibility is an issue too. > > Kevin Kofler > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
