[pypy-dev] __pycache__ folders

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

Hi,

<rant>
i would dare to say that Distributions that manage semi-compatible,
but distro specific "forks" of open source projects
instead of aiming for a distro compatible upstream
create quite some grief for developers.

after all users don't tend to notice those incompatibilities,
but it breaks the tooling of developers

I'm at a point where i need to run self-compiled pythons,
since the ones in Debian for example are broken
for some of my use-cases by Debian specific patches/changes

what makes it worse is that the error reporting paths for the distro 
specific "forks" aren't made clear
</rant>

-- Ronny

On 07/31/2012 04:26 PM, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Stefano Rivera<stefano at rivera.za.net>  wrote:
>> And I do my best to minimize that. In this case, I thought it was worth
>> the delta.
>
> My point of view is that this goes in the same pack of
> incompatibilities introduced by some distributions as splitting the
> install path (which we recommend to install as one block in
> /opt/pypy-1.9).  It may be useful to do that according to some
> distribution-specific rules, but either you do it as a distribution
> hack and we don't care about it, or you try to come here and discuss
> more in details the problems that you have and how we could solve it
> together.  As far as I know the __pycache__ is another example of
> distribution-specific hack that we were was not aware of.  I don't
> think we are by principle necessarily completely opposed to it:
> whereas it still looks like a good idea to stick to CPython's
> behavior, failing that, if there are good reasons, the next best
> solution is probably to come with something that we can integrate into
> the "real" pypy, rather than keep on your own.  If you don't, users
> complain here and you are just making us hate .pyc files even more.
> :-)
>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.
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