On 11/8/19 5:16 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:09:55 PM MST Martin Kolman wrote: >> 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@lists.fedoraproject.o >>> rg >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > Anyone that has ever worked with CD images understands that every megabyte > counts. > I would almost always take speed over disk size. _______________________________________________ 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
