On 23-Feb-2002 Roland Mas wrote: > Adam Olsen (2002-02-23 15:11:41 +0000) : > >> So on one side you have plain source, > [...] >> On the other side you could do it like C, > [...] > >> And in the middle you have the current method, which only suffers from >> the minor issues of the .py[co] files not being known to dpkg, and >> taking slightly longer to install. Compared to the alternatives, I >> think it beats them hands down. > > And in the middlest of them all, maybe there could also be a debconf > question asking the user whether he wants the *.py files to be > byte-compiled at install time. Global question, only asked once, or > package-specific and asked each time, that's an implementation detail. >
not a bad suggestion.
