[Python-Dev] PEP 3147, pycache directories and umask (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Mar 23 23:57:48 CET 2010

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> The main point of the pycache proposal is to solve the needs of > Ubuntu/Debian packagers. If you are developing (rather than deploying or > building packages), you shouldn't have these needs AFAICT.

Maybe it's one point, but I'm not sure it's the main one.

It's the only reason the PEP was originally designed, and proposed.

Personally I would benefit most from it during development.

Why? What benefit would it bring to you?

I hardly ever look in the directories of installed packages, so I don't care what they look like.

Neither do I, but Ubuntu/Debian packagers want to share the source code of third-party libraries across Python versions while keeping distinct bytecode files (obviously). Again, that's the original point of the PEP as proposed by Barry.

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