[Python-Dev] r84775 - peps/trunk/pep-3149.txt (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Sep 13 17:36:24 CEST 2010

>I meant how these decisions are implemented. Is there a configure >switch (there doesn't seem to be)? Does it require patching Python?

Ah, no. Standard configure switches are used. Debian (inherited by Ubuntu) has a post-installation script for Python packages which create the .py symlinks and do the byte-compilation. The big win here is that much of this can go away now (and in fact there are modifications to this post-installation script already).

Ok, so can you explain how the new thing will work (on Debian)? :) Does it mean that e.g. /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages will get symlinked to /usr/lib/python?

Regards

Antoine.

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