[Python-Dev] versioned .so files for Python 3.2 (original) (raw)

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 27 12:58:46 CEST 2010

On 26.07.2010 22:53, Ralf Schmitt wrote:

Barry Warsaw<barry at python.org> writes:

That's fine, but it's not the way Debian/Ubuntu works today. PEP 3149 adoption will definitely remove significant complication for deploying multiple Python versions at the same time on those systems. You're just moving that complication into python.

There is nothing which prevents you to still deploy/use python modules in separate directories, and if you see a python package as a directory, nothing will change for you with this PEP besides the naming of the extensions.

I'd much prefer to have cleanly separated environments by having separate directories for my python modules.

That is your preference, but not what standards like the FHS talk about (i.e. having different locations for data, docs, headers).

Sharing the source code and complicating things will not lead to increased robustness.

Not true. Package managers like dpkg/apt-get, rpm/yum and maybe others do this for ages. And yes, the added "complexity" of package managers does lead to increased robustness.

Matthias

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