[Python-Dev] Issue 11715: building Python from source on multiarch Debian/Ubuntu (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Sat Apr 2 10:55:45 CEST 2011

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> >> Even if their servers won't run ubuntu 11.04+ (or something with the > >> same library paths), their development environments will. > > > >They can also patch the Python releases themselves, or use Ubuntu > >packages that someone else made for them (they can probably just install > >the old 2.4 packages just fine). > > The Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2 packages in Ubuntu 11.04 already have essentially > the same patch that I posted, so folks using Python 2.6 from the operating > system will not have a problem. Without this patch in our repository, folks > building Python 2.6 from source will have to be aware of it.

So let them use Python 2.6 from Ubuntu. Case closed!

It isn't that simple. For example, I have automated scripts that test cdecimal against decimal.py for every release from r25 to r32.

This is also the reason why I was unhappy that r25 did not build from Mercurial initially.

There has been a lot of churn lately for module authors, starting with pycache, cpython-32m.so suffixes and ending in the mercurial transition.

In this case, it's clearly Ubuntu who is going to break things. Still, the proposed patch could make life a lot easier for many people.

Stefan Krah

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