> >I meant how these decisions are implemented. Is there a configure > >switch (there doesn't seem to be)? Does it require patching Python? > > Ah, no. Standard configure switches are used. Debian (inherited by Ubuntu) > has a post-installation script for Python packages which create the .py > symlinks and do the byte-compilation. The big win here is that much of this > can go away now (and in fact there are modifications to this post-installation > script already).
Ok, so can you explain how the new thing will work (on Debian)? :) Does it mean that e.g. /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages will get symlinked to /usr/lib/python? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
