Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Porting on RPM3

2011-03-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > The bindings cannot go changing header contents to their liking, so any > canonicalization would have to go into rpm proper, the build-side of things > to be exact so the runtime doesn't have to care. Requiring rpm to fiddle > with encoding

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Porting on RPM3

2011-03-22 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 03/22/2011 03:06 AM, David Malcolm wrote: [CCing Panu Matilainen, the maintainer of rpm, or, at least rpm 4.*, which is what all major distributions are using AIUI] On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 10:50 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: Am 21.03.2011 07:37, schrieb Prashant Kumar: Hello, My name i

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Porting on RPM3

2011-03-21 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:06:22PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > > Other ideas that occur: > - does rpmlint check for encoding yet? > - what to do e.g. about canonicalization? What happens if one rpm > provide a feature named "café" (where the "é" is U+00E9) and another rpm > requires a featu

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Porting on RPM3

2011-03-21 Thread David Malcolm
[CCing Panu Matilainen, the maintainer of rpm, or, at least rpm 4.*, which is what all major distributions are using AIUI] On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 10:50 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Am 21.03.2011 07:37, schrieb Prashant Kumar: > > Hello, > > My name is Prashant Kumar and I've worked on por

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Porting on RPM3

2011-03-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:50 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Am 21.03.2011 07:37, schrieb Prashant Kumar: >> Hello, >>     My name is  Prashant Kumar and I've worked on porting few python >> libraries(distutils2, configobj) and I've been looking at the ideas >> list for GSoC for a project related t

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Porting on RPM3

2011-03-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 21.03.2011 07:37, schrieb Prashant Kumar: > Hello, > My name is Prashant Kumar and I've worked on porting few python > libraries(distutils2, configobj) and I've been looking at the ideas > list for GSoC for a project related to porting. > > I came across [1] and found it interesting.