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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Jun 30 20:55:16 CEST 2010

On Jun 25, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:

Placing .so files together does not simplify that install process in any way. You will still have to handle such packages in a special way. You must still compile the package multiple times for each relevant version of python (with special tagging that I imagine distutils can take care of) and, worse yet, you have created a more trick install than merely having multiple search paths (e.g., installing/uninstalling lxml for one version of python is actually more difficult in this scheme). This is meant to be used by distros in a programmatic fashion, so my response is "so what?" Their package management system is going to maintain the directory, not a person. You and I are not going to be using this for anything. This is purely meant for Linux OS vendors (maybe OS X) to manage their installs through their package software. I honestly do not expect human beings to be mucking around with these installs (and I suspect Barry doesn't either).

Spot on.

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