[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB) (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Sat Dec 2 15:19:56 CET 2006

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:27:09PM +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote:

In both the current Debian and Ubuntu releases, the "python2.4" binary package includes distutils.

Ah, good. This must be a relatively recent change. I'm not a Debian user, but merely a user that happens to have to use a Debian machine occasionally. None of these machines had distutils installed by default so far, but it looks like things are going to improve in the future then.

Now I only have to hope that 2.4.4 makes its way out of 'unstable' soon. As far as I can tell sysadmins installing the current 'testing' would still be getting a Python 2.4.3, not modern enough to cope with the arithmetic overflow issues introduced by the cutting-edge GCC of 'testing'.

But it looks like any year now I'll be able to assume that Linux machines all provide a Python that works as nicely as a freshly compiled one.

A bientot,

Armin

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