Redhat and Python 2.x.x

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com> writes:

> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
> > It would be useful to define some sort of "shared" area into which
> > modules/packages acceptable to several different distributions could be
> > installed once. However, extending this to mutliple versions would get
> > confusing: a directory for 1.5.2 and 2.0 packages, a directory for 2.0,
> > 2.1 and 2.2 packages, etc.
> 
> While the source might be the same, the .pycs aren't, so somebody
> would suffer greatly.

Not only that, most such libraries would have C components as well
(e.g. newt).

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.