"Lite" vs. "Full" Python Ports

[Jannis Leidel]

Am 14.04.2009 um 22:00 schrieb Bryan Blackburn:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:10:32AM +0200, Arthur Koziel said:
>>
>> On 13.04.2009, at 23:19, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>>>
>>> Right, the way the py25-* version installs it is different than if  
>>> you
>>> install it directly with python25, that's actually part of the  
>>> problem
>>> with
>>> splitting them out, as mentioned with the -S stuff on #12369:
>>>
>>> ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_hashlib.so
>>> vs
>>> ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so
>>>
>>> There will probably be confusion however, so a FAQ entry might be  
>>> nice.
>>>
>>
>> That is, if you split the Python 2.5 port in "python2.5" and
>> "python2.5-minimal". I thought we would just enable the core  
>> modules in
>> python25, not split the port. See the "python25-reenable-libs.diff"  
>> patch
>> on #12369.
>
> Right, reintegrating those modules back into python25 would mean  
> that things
> like hashlib could be installed twice, at the two locations I  
> mentioned,
> because python25 will install into one location and py25-hashlib  
> (which may
> already be installed, since it is popular) will be at the other.
>
> As long as the one in lib-dynload is always loaded first, it  
> shouldn't be
> too big a deal, but someone really should test it...

At the risk of not knowing how that could be tested thoroughly: I'm  
running python25 with the patch I attached to #12369 for several days  
now without a problem. That also fixed #18567 for me.

Jannis

> Bryan
>
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>>
>>> Bryan
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>> Arthur
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