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From: mattmatteh@×××××.com
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o, gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] On Python, and the never-ending (?) story around it
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:45:51
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.1005201044270.6374@ssbook.Home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] On Python, and the never-ending (?) story around it by Fabian Groffen
1 On Tue, 4 May 2010, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2
3 > On 03-05-2010 16:55:58 -0500, mattmatteh@×××××.com wrote:
4 >>> As you may or may not know, the Python package that the Prefix tree
5 >>> contains is far from similar to the original from the gentoo-x86 tree.
6 >>
7 >>> Patches like those simply contradict the
8 >>> vision of Python's upstream.
9 >>
10 >>> So what should we do? One of the differences between Prefix python and
11 >>> gx86 python is the addition of the "aqua" USE-flag. We need it for some
12 >>> packages, in particular for the last remaining package in dev-python in
13 >>> the Prefix tree: wxpython. So always keeping an overlay version won't
14 >>> work in this respect. What are the alternatives? Create a
15 >>> python-prefix package, that is under maintenance of the prefix team?
16 >>> Would mean we have to fix depstrings all over the place, but as last
17 >>> resort?
18 >>>
19 >>>
20 >>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317091
21 >>
22 >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317091#c4 suggest you can work
23 >> with upstream. is this possible ? the prefix team has done an amazing
24 >> job so far and i think the best solution is to try to work with upstream
25 >> so there are minimal differences between upstream and gx86 and prefix. i
26 >> dont think you want a python-prefix, seems like alot of work.
27 >
28 > If upstream would also want to work with us, yes. Our bugs are largely
29 > ignored or closed/wontfixed. And given the amount of bugs and patches
30 > at other distributions I feel we're absolutely not alone in that world.
31
32 there any update how python is going ? just noticed that gentoo
33 (non-prefix) is getting ready to stablize python-3
34
35 matt

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